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It's As Easy As abc

Andrew Granville and Thomas J. Tucker

If one cannot solve a problem, then--according to a heuristic of George Pólya--there must be an easier problem that one cannot solve. The authors apply this principle to number theory.
(pp. 1224)
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Leopold Vietoris (1891--2002)

Heinrich Reitberger

This article surveys the research of a mathematician who may be a maximal counterexample to G. H. Hardy's claim that mathematics is a game of the young.
(pp. 1232)
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Communications

The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
A Book Review
Reviewed by A. K. Dewdney

Conned Again, Watson: Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability
A Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Tattersall

VIGRE Turns Three
Rick Durrett

WHAT Is a Building?
Kenneth S. Brown

The World of Blind Mathematicians
Allyn Jackson

"But What Good Came of it At Last?"*-- How to Assess the Value of Undergraduate Research
Ani Adhikari and Deborah Nolan

Lafforgue and Voevodsky Receive Fields Medals

Madhu Sudan Receives Nevanlinna Prize

2002 JPBM Communications Award

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