1. Letters to the editor

   • Fred Almgren
   • Michael Hardy

   Department 13 January 2009 Pages: 3 - 3

2. Karmarkar’s algorithm and its place in applied mathematics

   • Gilbert Strang

   Article 13 January 2009 Pages: 4 - 10

3. Sylvester in Virginia

   • Lewis S. Feuer

   Article 13 January 2009 Pages: 13 - 19

4. Why is a congress?

   • P. R. Halmos

   Article 13 January 2009 Pages: 20 - 27

5. Women in mathematics: An international perspective, eight years later

   • Lenore Blum

   Article 13 January 2009 Pages: 28 - 32

6. A graduate student’s view of the international congress of mathematicians

   • Frank Sottile

   Article 13 January 2009 Pages: 33 - 35

7. Opinion

   • Czesław Olech

   Department 13 January 2009 Pages: 36 - 37

8. Willmore Surfaces

   • U. Pinkall
   • I. Sterling

   Article 13 January 2009 Pages: 38 - 43

9. The mathematical tourist

   • Hendrik W. Lenstra
   • Gerard van der Geer

   Department 13 January 2009 Pages: 44 - 45

10. Excerpts fromriemann, topology, and physics

    • Michael Monastyrsky

    Article 13 January 2009 Pages: 46 - 52

11. Adventures in arithmetick, or: How to make good use of a fourier transform

    • R. C. Vaughan

    Article 13 January 2009 Pages: 53 - 60

12. Years ago

    • Allen Shields

    Department 13 January 2009 Pages: 61 - 63

13. Mathematical entertainments

    • Steven H. Weintraub

    Department 13 January 2009 Pages: 65 - 67

14. Reviews

    • Chandler Davis
    • Gary Cornell

    Department 13 January 2009 Pages: 68 - 71

15. The stamp corner

    • Robin Wilson

    Department 13 January 2009 Pages: 71 - 71