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Featured Articles and Invitations from the AMS
Kunihiko Kodaira: Mathematician, Friend, and Teacher
F. Hirzebruch
Hirzebruch gives an appreciation of how much his own work in algebraic geometry and several complex variables has depended on the mathematics of the late Fields Medalist Kunihiko Kodaira.
Measuring the Shape of the Universe
Neil J. Cornish and Jeffrey R. Weeks
The authors describe how they and their colleagues, using some simple geometry and data obtained from a NASA satellite set for launch in the year 2000, hope to detect the curvature and topology of the universe.