1. Letters to the editor

   Departments 09 January 2009 Pages: 3 - 5

2. The birth of lie’y of groups

   • Thomas Hawkins

   Article 09 January 2009 Pages: 6 - 17

3. The sacred cut revisited: the pavement of the baptistery of san giovanni, florence

   • Kim Williams

   Article 09 January 2009 Pages: 18 - 24

4. Mathematical entertainments

   • David Gale

   Departments 09 January 2009 Pages: 25 - 31

5. G.H. Hardy as an editor

   • John Todd

   Article 09 January 2009 Pages: 32 - 37

6. Years ago

   • Jeremy J. Gray

   Departments 09 January 2009 Pages: 38 - 41

7. Linear Ill-posed problems are solvable on the average for all gaussian measures

   • J. E Traub
   • A. G. Werschulz

   Article 09 January 2009 Pages: 42 - 48

8. How to tangle with a nested radical

   • Susan Landau

   Article 09 January 2009 Pages: 49 - 55

9. The mathematical tourist

   • Ian Stewart

   Department 09 January 2009 Pages: 56 - 59

10. Symmetry of opposites: antisymmetry

    • István Hargittai
    • Magdolna Hargittai

    Article 09 January 2009 Pages: 60 - 66

11. Gauss, eisenstein, and the “third” proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem:ein kleines schauspiel

    • Reinhard C. Laubenbacher
    • David J. Pengelley

    Article 09 January 2009 Pages: 67 - 72

12. Reviews

    • Jet Wimp

    Department 09 January 2009 Pages: 73 - 75

13. Stamp corner

    • Robin Wilson

    Department 09 January 2009 Pages: 76 - 76