ISSN: 0002-9920 (Print) 1088-9477 (Electronic) 
 
Current Issue: February  2002  Volume 49  Issue 2 
 

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Solving the Pell Equation

Solving the Pell Equation

Since the time of Archimedes, mathematicians have challenged their peers with a Diophantine equation that is satisfied by huge integers. The article discusses the algorithmic efficiency of various solution methods.
(pp. 182)
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John Wilder Tukey (1915--2000)

David R. Brillinger

The author remembers a scientist who discovered the fast Fourier transform, changed the language of statistics, and counseled U.S. presidents.
(pp. 193)
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Communications

Mathematics Education Positions in Higher Education and Their Applicants: A Many to One Correspondence
Robert E. Reys

Reflections of Departing DMS Rotators
Allyn Jackson

2001 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Report)
Don O. Loftsgaarden, James W. Maxwell, and Kinda Remick Priestley

The Universal History of Numbers and The Universal History of Computing
A Book Review
Part II, Reviewed by Joseph Dauben

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Meetings and Conferences Table of Contents

From the AMS Secretary

2001 Election Results

Call for Suggestions for 2002 AMS Election

2002 AMS Election (Nominations by Petition)

Call for Nominations for 2003 Leroy Steele Prizes