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Current Issue: January  2000  Volume 47  Issue 1 
 

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We Got Rhythm: Dynamical Systems of the Nervous System

Nancy Kopell

This article, based on the 1999 Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture, discusses mathematical models for the rhythms that are observed in certain kinds of brain activity, as well as transitions between different rhythms
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Geometry of Solitons

Chuu-Lian Terng and Karen Uhlenbeck

Some classical nonlinear PDEs have solutions that are asymptotic to nontrivial linear combinations of solitary waves. The authors show how to make the study of these equations more systematic by introducing actions of loop groups on the spaces of solutions.
(pp. 17)
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Harmonic Analysis and Group Representations

James Arthur

Arthur gives a short introduction to the work of Harish-Chandra and then provides hints of the nature of the Langlands Program, offering a sense of the role played by Harish-Chandra's work in the Langlands Program.
(pp. 26)
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Communications

The Nonabelian Reciprocity Law for Local Fields
Jonathan Rogawski

Declining Mathematics Funding at the DoD
Allyn Jackson

The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance
A Book Review
Reviewed by Anthony Phillips

The Number Devil
A Book Review
Reviewed by Deborah Loewenberg Ball and Hyman Bass

't Hooft and Veltman Receive 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics

AMS Participation in World Mathematical Year 2000
Allyn Jackson

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