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Featured Articles and Invitations from the AMS
Paul Wolfskehl and the Wolfskehl Prize
Klaus Barner
The story of a German physician's fascination with Fermat's Last Theorem, and the famous (and ultimately valuable) prize he established for the solution.
The Stability of Matter Interacting with Fields
Michael Loss
It is both a remarkable fact and an important result in mathematical analysis that quantum theory can explain the stability of ordinary bulk matter. This article describes recent developments when the interaction of matter with fields is also taken into account.