1. Letters to the editor

   • Angelo Ricotta

   Letter 15 November 2008 Pages: 4 - 7

2. On projecting the future and assessing the past—the 1946 princeton bicentennial conference

   • David E. Rowe

   Years ago 15 November 2008 Pages: 8 - 15

3. Consequences of reversing preferences

   • Donald G. Saari
   • Steven Barney

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2008 Pages: 17 - 31

4. Don’t Touch the Button

   • Colin C. Adams

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2008 Pages: 32 - 34

5. On the Geometrical and Physical Meaning of Newton’s Solution to Kepler’s Problem

   • Kai Hauser
   • Reinhard Lang

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2008 Pages: 35 - 44

6. Mathematicians’ visiting Cards

   • Gerald L. Alexanderson
   • Leonard F. Klosinski

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2008 Pages: 45 - 52

7. One hundred prisoners and a lightbulb

   • Paul-Olivier Dehaye
   • Daniel Ford
   • Henry Segerman

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2008 Pages: 53 - 61

8. Autism in mathematicians

   • Ioan James

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2008 Pages: 62 - 65

9. A mathematician in lhasa

   • Michele Emmer

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2008 Pages: 67 - 71

10. Cool irrational numbers and their rather cool rational approximations

    • Francesco Calogero

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2008 Pages: 72 - 76

11. Joseph Fourier, 1768–1830: créateur de la physique-mathématique

    • Jean-Pierre Kahane

    Review 15 November 2008 Pages: 77 - 80

12. Four colours suffice: how the map problem was solved

    • Charles Nash

    Review 15 November 2008 Pages: 80 - 83

13. Mathematics and art: mathematical visualization in art and education

    • Helmer Aslaksen

    Review 15 November 2008 Pages: 83 - 84

14. The mathematical intelligencer index

    Announcement 15 November 2008 Pages: 85 - 86

15. Anniversaries

    • Robin Wilson

    Stamp Corner 15 November 2008 Pages: 88 - 88