ISSN: 0002-9920 (Print) 1088-9477 (Electronic) 
 
Current Issue: March  1997  Volume 44  Issue 3 
 

Features

Interview with Bartel Leendert van der Waerden

Yvonne Dold-Samplonius

The life and experiences of van der Waerden spanned twentieth-century mathematics in Europe, as revealed in this interview with him in 1993.
(pp. 313)
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Van der Waerden's Modern Algebra

Saunders Mac Lane

The major changes in algebra wrought over 70 years ago were brought to the mathematical world by van der Waerden's seminal texts.
(pp. 321)
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From Matrix Mechanics and Wave Mechanics to Unified Quantum Mechanics

B. L. van der Waerden

Early discussions of quantum mechanics are revealed and discussed in this reprinted article.
(pp. 323)
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Communications

Chinese Acrobats, an Old-Time Brewery, and the "Much Needed Gap": the Life of Mathematical Reviews
Allyn Jackson

Are Women Getting All the Jobs?
Marie A. Vitulli and Mary E. Flahive

H. S. M. Coxeter Celebrates 90th Birthday
George F. D. Duff

1997 Steele Prizes

1997 Cole Prize

1997 Satter Prize

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