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Current Issue: April  2008  Volume 55  Issue 4 
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Features

Mathematics and Voting

Donald G. Saari

The mathematical analysis of voting systems, and of aggregation rules in general, shows that they can yield paradoxes as well as preferences. In this article, featured here for Mathematics Awareness Month, the author explains what kind of problems can arise and how they can be mathematically understood.
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Henri's Crystal Ball

Philip J. Davis and David Mumford

April 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of an ICM lecture by Henri Poincaré on the future of mathematics. The authors consider Poincaré's predictions, both general and specific, in the light of the ensuing century.
(pp. 458)
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Victor L. Klee (1925--2007)

Peter Gritzmann and Bernd Sturmfels

Colleagues, students, and others recall the mathematical life of the eminent American mathematician.
(pp. 467)
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Communications

A Photographic Look at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, 2008

WHAT IS...Property A?
Piotr Nowak and Guoliang Yu

2008 Steele Prizes

2008 Conant Prize

2008 Morgan Prize

2008 Cole Prize in Number Theory

2008 Bôcher Prize

2008 Doob Prize

2008 Eisenbud Prize

2008 Award for Distinguished Public Service

Commentary

Opinion
DARPA and Hilbert
Allyn Jackson

Letters to the Editor

Fly Me to the Moon
A Book Review
Reviewed by Shane Ross

Is Mathematics Misapplied to the Environment?
A Book Review
Reviewed by C. K. R. T. Jones

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Meetings and Conferences of the AMS

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From the AMS Secretary

Call for Nominations for the George David Birkhoff Prize, the Frank Nelson Cole Prizes, and the Levi L. Conant Prize

Call for Nominations for the AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize

Call for Nominations for the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize and the Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize

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