Danny Calegari and Benson Farb, coordinating editors
Friends and colleagues recall the life and work of the distinguished American mathematician.
(pp. 1410)
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Stephen Leon Lipscomb
A universal space in a class of topological spaces has the defining property that every space in the class is homeomorphic to a subspace of it. For example, a countable product of unit intervals is universal for the class of separable metric spaces. The author describes a construction of universal spaces for metric spaces of arbitrary weights.
(pp. 1418)
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Allyn Jackson
There are mathematics institutes around the globe. While all share the common goal of encouraging mathematical research, many different styles and local traditions have emerged. In this article the author profiles the distinctive character of three institutes in Denmark, Spain, and Italy.
(pp. 1426)
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