1. Editorial

   • Ian Stewart

   Departments 16 January 2009 Pages: 3 - 4

2. Letters to the editor

   • Neal Koblitz
   • Cosgrove
   • Marius Iosifescu

   Departments 16 January 2009 Pages: 5 - 6

3. 50 and 100 years ago

   • Jeremy Gray

   Department 16 January 2009 Pages: 7 - 9

4. Who would have won the fields medals a hundred years ago?

   • Jeremy Gray

   Article 16 January 2009 Pages: 10 - 19

5. The geometry of markoff numbers

   • Caroline Series

   Article 16 January 2009 Pages: 20 - 29

6. The virtues and dangers of interdisciplinary research

   • René Thom

   Article 16 January 2009 Pages: 31 - 34

7. Problem corner

   • Murray S. Klamkin

   Department 16 January 2009 Pages: 35 - 37

8. Möbius crossword

   • Michael Keith

   OriginalPaper 16 January 2009 Pages: 38 - 38

9. Configurations: A case study in mathematical beauty

   • Harold L. Dorwart

   Ariticle 16 January 2009 Pages: 39 - 48

10. Ring structure and the fourier transform

    • L. Auslander
    • R. Tolimieri

    Article 16 January 2009 Pages: 49 - 52

11. What’s new in logic?

    • C. Smoryński

    Article 16 January 2009 Pages: 53 - 54

12. Leonhard euler’s convenient numbers

    • Günther Frei

    Article 16 January 2009 Pages: 55 - 58

13. Mathematics for young people: The royal institution masterclasses

    • Christopher Zeeman
    • Ian Stewart

    Article 16 January 2009 Pages: 59 - 64

14. The evidence

    • Stan Wagon

    Department 16 January 2009 Pages: 65 - 67

15. Book reviews

    • Gary Cornell
    • Ian Stewart
    • J. W. P. Hirschfeld

    BookReview 16 January 2009 Pages: 68 - 70

16. Correction

    Announcement 16 January 2009 Pages: 70 - 70

17. Books received

    Announcement 16 January 2009 Pages: 71 - 72

18. Why is there no nobel prize in Mathematics?

    • Lars Gårding
    • Lars Hörmander

    Department 16 January 2009 Pages: 73 - 74

19. Three letters from sophus lie to felix klein on Parisian Mathematics during the early 1880’s

    • David E. Rowe

    Department 16 January 2009 Pages: 74 - 77

20. The stamp corner

    OriginalPaper 16 January 2009 Pages: 78 - 78

21. Towers of inexactness: A view of spectral sequences

    • C. T. J. Dodson

    Department 16 January 2009 Pages: 78 - 80

22. Party politics

    Department 16 January 2009 Pages: 80 - 80