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Current Issue: June/July  2009  Volume 56  Issue 06 
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Remembering Atle Selberg, 1917-2007

Dennis Hejhal, Coordinating Editor

Friends and colleagues recall the life and work of the distinguished number theorist.
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On the Concept of Genus in Topology and Complex Analysis

Friedrich E. P. Hirzebruch and Matthias Kreck

The notion of genus appears in many areas of mathematics. The authors discuss this concept, from its origins in Riemann surface theory to its use in geometry, topology, and the index theorems of analysis.
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WHAT IS...an Elliptic Genus?
Serge Ochanine

Gromov Receives 2009 Abel Prize

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Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference

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Letter from the Editor
My First Forty
Andy Magid

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Out of the Labyrinth
A Book Review
Reviewed by Jesse Johnson

Mathematics and Common Sense: A Case of Creative Tension
A Book Review
Reviewed by Chelluri C. A. Sastri

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