1. Letters to the editor

   Departments 15 November 2008 Pages: 5 - 6

2. Four poems

   • Philip Holmes

   Articles 15 November 2008 Pages: 7 - 8

3. The Mysterious Mr. Ammann

   • Marjorie Senechal

   Mathematical communities 15 November 2008 Pages: 10 - 21

4. Mangum, P.I.

   • Colin Adams

   Mathematically bent 15 November 2008 Pages: 22 - 24

5. Crocheting the Lorenz Manifold

   • Hinke M. Osinga
   • Bernd Krauskopf

   Articles 15 November 2008 Pages: 25 - 37

6. Mathematical entertainment

   • Thomas Hull

   Departments 15 November 2008 Pages: 38 - 39

7. What Do You Need a Mathematician For? Martinus Hortensius ’s “Speech on the Dignity and Utility of the Mathematical Sciences ” (Amsterdam 1634)

   • Volker R. Remmert

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2008 Pages: 40 - 46

8. Mathematical tour through the sydney opera house

   • Joe Hammer

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2008 Pages: 48 - 52

9. Matrix revolutions: An introduction to quantum variables for young mathematicians

   • Edward G. Effros

   Articles 15 November 2008 Pages: 53 - 60

10. Solutions (of a sort) to the origami quiz

    • Thomas Hull

    Departments 15 November 2008 Pages: 61 - 63

11. Gentzens problem. mathematische logik im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland.

    • Petr Hájek
    • Dirk van Dalen

    Review 15 November 2008 Pages: 64 - 66

12. Stochastic finance. an introduction in discrete time

    • Terry J. Lyons

    Review 15 November 2008 Pages: 67 - 68

13. Matematica e cultura 2000; Matematica e cultura 2003

    • Marco Abate

    Review 15 November 2008 Pages: 68 - 70

14. When least is best

    • Clark Kimberling

    Review 15 November 2008 Pages: 70 - 71

15. An invitation to algebraic geometry

    • Marc Chardin

    Review 15 November 2008 Pages: 71 - 72

16. The philamath’s alphabet—f

    • Robin Wilson

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2008 Pages: 76 - 76