Notices of the American Mathematical Society

August 2009, Front Cover MacKichan Software, Inc. Giving to the AMS Birkhauser August 2009 Table of Contents Opinion: Congressional Testimony in Support of NSF, James Glimm, Samuel M. Rankin Letters to the Editor WebAssign Guido Castelnuovo and Francesco Severi: Two Personalities, Two Letters, Donald Babbitt and Judith Goodstein The Dixmier-Douady Invariant for Dummies, Claude Schochet WHAT IS...the Parity Phenomenon?, John Friedlander and Henryk Iwaniec Why Publish Mathematics?, Klaus Peters Ernst Zermelo: An Approach to His Life and Work--A Book Review, Reviewed by Gregory H. Moore 2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences in the U.S. (Second Report) (and Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2007-2008, Supplementary List), Polly Phipps, James W. Maxwell, and Colleen A. Rose Mathematics People Mathematics Opportunities For Your Information Inside the AMS Reference and Book List Call for Nominations and Applications for Treasurer of the AMS Mathematics Calendar New Publications Offered by the AMS Classified Advertisements Call for Proposals for the 2011 von Neumann Symposium Meetings & Conferences of the AMS Meetings and Conferences Table of Contents Cambridge University Press AMS Bookstore--University Lecture Series rnoti-aug09-cov4