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Notices of the American Mathematical Society

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Featured Articles and Invitations from the AMS

A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts

Jöran Friberg

Mesopotamian cuneiform texts from as long ago as two millennia before the common era reveal mathematical knowledge of an often surprising depth. In this article, based on his book of the same name, the author offers a selection of some of this remarkable mathematics writing.

Uncovering a New L-function

Andrew R. Booker

An L-function is a complex function given by an Euler product (generally, an infinite product of reciprocals of polynomials in an exponential) continued to an entire function, except for finitely many poles on the vertical line through 1, which in addition satisfies a functional equation. The Riemann zeta function is the prototype. Here, the author surveys the notion of L-function and presents some computations regarding a recent discovery.