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Guido Castelnuovo and Francesco Severi: Two Personalities, Two Letters

Donald Babbitt and Judith Goodstein

The authors present excerpts from letters to Beniamino Segre from Francesco Severi and Guido Castelnuovo, and tell stories of these important mathematicians and the algebraic geometry they created.
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The Dixmier-Douady Invariant for Dummies

Claude Schochet

The Dixmier-Douady invariant is the primary tool in the classification of continuous trace C*-algebras. In this article the author explores its properties from the perspective of classical algebraic topology.
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Communications

WHAT IS...the Parity Phenomenon?
John Friedlander and Henryk Iwaniec

Why Publish Mathematics?
Klaus Peters

2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences in the United States (Second Report) (and Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2007-2008, Supplementary List)
Polly Phipps, James W. Maxwell, and Colleen A. Rose

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Congressional Testimony in Support of NSF
James Glimm and Samuel Rankin

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Ernst Zermelo: An Approach to His Life and Work
A Book Review
Reviewed by Gregory H. Moore

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