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Featured Articles and Invitations from the AMS
Symplectic Structures--A New Approach to Geometry
Dusa McDuff
This article, based on the 1998 AWM Emmy Noether Lecture, describes the development and nature of symplectic geometry and compares it with Kähler geometry, which is the classical geometry over the complex numbers.
Where Mathematics Meets the Internet
Walter Willinger and Vern Paxson
Traditional use of telephones is modeled probabilistically by a Poisson process, and this model is extremely helpful in planning the necessary hardware for the telephone system. Surprisingly, the model does not apply to Internet usage, but fractals appear to be a useful substitute.