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Notices of the American Mathematical Society

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Featured Articles and Invitations from the AMS

Magic, Mystery, and Matrix

Edward Witten

This article, based on the 1998 Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture, describes the successive needs for quantum field theory, quantum gravity, various string theories, and finally M-theory, where M stands for magic, mystery, or matrix.

Singular Integrals: The Roles of Calderón and Zygmund

Elias M. Stein

This tribute to Alberto Calderón traces Calderón's mathematics and its impact, beginning with early joint work with Antoni Zygmund on singular integrals, continuing with later work of Calderón alone, and ending with a discussion of the wide areas of contemporary mathematics influenced by Calderón.

The Autobiography of Laurent Schwartz

K. Chandrasekharan

Fields Medalist Laurent Schwartz, who develped the theory of distributions, has written an autobiography in French, and this article summarizes and reviews that book.