1. Editorial

   • Ian Stewart

   Departments 09 January 2009 Pages: 3 - 4

2. Letters to the editor

   Departments 09 January 2009 Pages: 5 - 5

3. 50 and 100 years ago

   • Jeremy Gray

   Departments 09 January 2009 Pages: 6 - 7

4. Yeast oscillations, belousov-zhabotinsky waves, and the non-retraction theorem

   • Steven Strogatz

   Articles 09 January 2009 Pages: 9 - 17

5. Nicholas bourbaki, collective mathematician an interview with claude chevalley

   • Denis Guedj

   Articles 09 January 2009 Pages: 18 - 22

6. The bieberbach conjecture

   • Ch. Pommerenke

   Articles 09 January 2009 Pages: 23 - 25

7. Nonlinear field equations and twistor theory

   • R. O. Wells Jr.

   Articles 09 January 2009 Pages: 26 - 32

8. Problem corner

   • Murray S. Klamkin

   Departments 09 January 2009 Pages: 33 - 34

9. The hypergeometric function— a biographical sketch

   • W. K. Bühler

   Articles 09 January 2009 Pages: 35 - 40

10. Max-planck-institut für mathematik

    • Norbert Schappacher

    Articles 09 January 2009 Pages: 41 - 52

11. Bring back geometry

    • Ramesh Kapadia

    Articles 09 January 2009 Pages: 53 - 54

12. Partial triumph or total failure?

    • Raymond G. Ayoub

    Articles 09 January 2009 Pages: 55 - 58

13. Book reviews

    • Gary Cornell
    • Ian Stewart

    BookReview 09 January 2009 Pages: 59 - 64

14. Books received

    Announcement 09 January 2009 Pages: 64 - 65

15. The evidence

    Departments 09 January 2009 Pages: 66 - 68

16. The Legal Values of Pi

    • David Singmaster

    Old Intelligencer 09 January 2009 Pages: 69 - 72

17. The stamp corner

    Old Intelligencer 09 January 2009 Pages: 73 - 73

18. A mathematical problem

    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Old Intelligencer 09 January 2009 Pages: 73 - 74

19. Promoting international cooperation

    Old Intelligencer 09 January 2009 Pages: 75 - 76

20. Reminiscences of conversations with Carol Ludwig Siegel by Harold Davenport

    Old Intelligencer 09 January 2009 Pages: 76 - 79