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"Count on the Numbers to Always Be There," by Dan Rockmore. Boston
Globe, 8 August 2000.
"For Mathematicians, `a Once in a Century Thing'," by K. C. Cole. Los
Angeles Times, 10 August 2000, page B2.
"Math Convention Problems Just Keep On Multiplying," by David Ferrell. Los
Angeles Times, 12 August 2000.
These three articles discuss the AMS meeting "Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century," held on the campus of UCLA in August 2000. The meeting featured lectures by mathematicians whose work ranges over a wide variety of areas within mathematics and along its borders with other disciplines. These two articles give a flavor of the diversity of topics presented at the meeting and capture the sense of fascination that mathematics holds for its practitioners. "Because mathematics isn't stuck in any single context, it is endlessly versatile---like the letters of the alphabet, equally adept at writing sonnets or advertisements," Cole writes. "Its ability to distill the essence is what makes it universal---like love or hate."
--- Allyn Jackson
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