1. Opinion Survey: The Best Mathematical Books of the Twentieth Century

   • Eric Grunwald

   Letter to the Editors 30 October 2008 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Riot at the Calc Exam

   • Colin Adams

   Mathematically Bent 25 November 2008 Pages: 2 - 3

3. Mathematics Is Not a Game But...

   • Robert Thomas

   OriginalPaper 12 November 2008 Pages: 4 - 8

4. (Formulas of Brion, Lawrence, and Varchenko on rational generating functions for cones)

   • Matthias Beck
   • Christian Haase
   • Frank Sottile

   OriginalPaper 03 December 2008 Pages: 9 - 17

5. Four Poems from When She Was Kissed by the Mathematician

   • Sandra M. Gilbert

   OriginalPaper 15 October 2008 Pages: 18 - 20

6. Jakob Steiner’s Systematische Entwickelung: The Culmination of Classical Geometry

   • Viktor Blåsjö

   Years Ago 02 December 2008 Pages: 21 - 29

7. The World’s Tallest Cryptic

   • Kevin Wald

   Mathematical Entertainments 05 December 2008 Pages: 30 - 35

8. The Search for Quasi-Periodicity in Islamic 5-fold Ornament

   • Peter R. Cromwell

   OriginalPaper 27 November 2008 Pages: 36 - 56

9. Geometric Constructions with Ellipses

   • Aliska Gibbins
   • Lawrence Smolinsky

   OriginalPaper 19 November 2008 Pages: 57 - 62

10. Abstract Neo-Plasticity and Its Architectural Manifestation in the Luis Barragan House/Studio of 1947

    • Jin-Ho Park
    • Hong-Kyu Lee
    • Kyung-Sun Lee

    The Mathematical Tourist 03 December 2008 Pages: 63 - 72

11. Introduction to Bayesian Scientific Computing: Ten Lectures on Subjective Computing by Daniela Calvetti and Erkki Somersalo

    • Uri Ascher

    Review 31 October 2008 Pages: 73 - 74

12. A Certain Ambiguity. A Mathematical Novel by Gaurav Suri and Hartosh Sing Bal

    • Tom Petsinis

    Review 04 November 2008 Pages: 75 - 75

13. Symmetry and the Monster by Mark Ronan

    • Kishore Marathe

    Review Open access 06 November 2008 Pages: 76 - 78

14. Ernst Zermelo. An Approach to His Life and Work by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus, in cooperation with Volker Peckhaus

    • Henry E. Heatherly

    Review 04 November 2008 Pages: 79 - 81

15. Number Theory Through Inquiry by David C. Marshall, Edward Odell, and Michael Starbird

    • John J. Watkins

    Review 15 November 2008 Pages: 82 - 83

16. King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry by Siobhan Roberts

    • Ulf Persson

    Review 14 November 2008 Pages: 84 - 85

17. The Philamath’s Alphabet: TUV

    • Robin Wilson

    Stamp Corner 30 October 2008 Pages: 86 - 86