1. New column on the way

   • Marjorie Scnechal

   Article 19 January 2009 Pages: 5 - 5

2. Letter to the editor

   • S. P. Peterson
   • Maurice Machover

   Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 6 - 6

3. Remarks on hibert’s 23rd problem

   • Shiing- shen Chern

   Article 19 January 2009 Pages: 7 - 8

4. The “indexed” theorem

   • Alfredo Octavio
   • J. Borwein
   • S. Parnes

   Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 9 - 18

5. Patchworking algebraic curves disproves the ragsdale conjecture

   • Ilia Itenberg
   • Oleg Viro

   Article 19 January 2009 Pages: 19 - 28

6. Mathematical entertainments

   • David Gale

   Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 29 - 34

7. Evariste galois

   • Ilona Bodden
   • Kurt Bretterbauer

   OriginalPaper 19 January 2009 Pages: 34 - 34

8. Lifelong symmetry: A conversation with h. s. m. coxeter

   • Istvan Hargittai

   Article 19 January 2009 Pages: 35 - 41

9. The trigonometry of escher’s woodcut “circle limit III“

   • H. S. M. Coxeter

   Article 19 January 2009 Pages: 42 - 46

10. Nestor of mathematicians: Leopold vietoris turns 105

    • Gilbert Helmberg
    • Karl Sigmund

    Article 19 January 2009 Pages: 47 - 50

11. Years ago

    • Jeremy J. Gray

    Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 51 - 55

12. The mathematical tourist

    • Ian Stewart
    • D. Huylebrouck
    • David E. Kullman

    Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 56 - 66

13. Reviews

    • Jet Wimp
    • Herb Clemens
    • J. Lambek

    Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 67 - 79

14. Stamp corner

    • Robin Wilson

    Department 19 January 2009 Pages: 80 - 80