1. Letters to the editor

   Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 3 - 4

2. Opinion

   • Granville Sewell

   Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 5 - 7

3. Drawing with complex numbers

   • Michael Eastwood
   • Roger Penrose

   Articles 19 January 2009 Pages: 8 - 13

4. Mathematical entertainments

   • Edward M. Reingold

   Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 14 - 15

5. Bertrand’s paradox revisited

   • John Holbrook
   • Sung soo Kim

   Articles 19 January 2009 Pages: 16 - 19

6. Mathematical communities

   • Karin Johnsgard

   Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 20 - 32

7. Iterated strings and cellular automata

   • Oleksiy Andriychenko
   • Marc Chamberland

   Articles 19 January 2009 Pages: 33 - 36

8. Ode to andrew wiles, kbe

   • Tom M. Apostol

   Articles 19 January 2009 Pages: 36 - 36

9. Rhapsody in white: A victory for mathematics

   • Andy Cantrell
   • Robert Longhurst
   • John Bruning

   Articles 19 January 2009 Pages: 37 - 40

10. Mathematically bent

    Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 41 - 42

11. Ethnographic report

    • Didier Nordon

    Articles 19 January 2009 Pages: 43 - 45

12. The Fibonacci Chimney

    • Mats Gyllenberg
    • Karl Sigmund

    Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 46 - 46

13. Vilnius between the wars

    • Stanłslaw Domoradzki
    • Zofia Pawlikowska-Brożek

    Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 47 - 50

14. Counting lattice points on spheres

    • John A. Ewell

    Articles 19 January 2009 Pages: 51 - 53

15. Kepler’s critique of algèbra

    • Peter Pesic

    Departments 19 January 2009 Pages: 54 - 59

16. Goursat, Pringsheim, Walsh, and the Cauchy Integral Theorem

    • Jeremy Gray

    Departments 19 January 2009 Pages: 60 - 66

17. Gerbert of aurillac: mathematician and pope

    • Osmo Pekonen

    Articles 19 January 2009 Pages: 67 - 70

18. Reviews

    • Martin Erickson
    • Robert Gilmore
    • Marshall Ash

    Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 71 - 77

19. Indian Mathematics

    • Robin Wilson

    Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 80 - 80