1. Letter to the Editor

   • Lawrence A. Shepp
   • Seymour Schuster
   • Jeffrey Shallit

   Department 10 January 2009 Pages: 4 - 7

2. Multivariate descartes rule of signs and sturmfels’s challenge problem

   • Jeffrey C. Lagarias
   • Thomas J. Richardson

   Article 10 January 2009 Pages: 9 - 15

3. Proof: A Many-Splendored Thing

   • Israel Kleiner
   • Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadar

   Article 10 January 2009 Pages: 16 - 26

4. Mathematical communities

   • Vincent Ssembatya
   • Andrew Vince

   Department 10 January 2009 Pages: 27 - 32

5. The Geometry of Piero della Francesca

   • Mark A. Peterson

   Department 10 January 2009 Pages: 33 - 40

6. From “London, Before and After: the Middle Way”

   • Jacqueline Osherow

   Article 10 January 2009 Pages: 40 - 40

7. The mathematical tourist

   • István Hargittai
   • Lev V. Vilkov

   Department 10 January 2009 Pages: 41 - 42

8. Mathematical entertainments

   Department 10 January 2009 Pages: 44 - 47

9. Years ago

   • Helmut Pulte

   Department 10 January 2009 Pages: 48 - 54

10. Symmetry and perception: Logos of rotational point-groups induce the feeling of motion

    • Magdolna Hargittai
    • István Hargittai

    Department 10 January 2009 Pages: 55 - 58

11. Reviews

    • Stan Wagon
    • Marc Kilgour
    • Jet Wimp

    Department 10 January 2009 Pages: 59 - 75

12. Stamps of unusual shape II

    • Robin Wilson

    Stamp corner 10 January 2009 Pages: 76 - 76