InhaltsangabeII.- Evolution Equations in Geometry.- Computational Field Visualization.- Whither Applied Nonlinear Dynamics?.- Mathematics Comes from Many Sources.- The Ubiquitous Heat Kernel.- Mathematical Modelling of the Internet.- Developments in Insurance Mathematics.- Discontinuous Groups for Non-Riemannian Homogeneous Spaces.- Cryptography.- Periods.- How Should We Prepare the Students of Science and Technology for a Life in the Computer Age?.- Astrophysics and Cosmology in the 21st Century.- L2-Invariants and Their Applications to Geometry, Group Theory and Spectral Theory.- A Chapter in Physical Mathematics: Theory of Knots in the Sciences.- The Unity of Mathematics.- Geometric Aspects of Mirror Symmetry.- What Is an Algorithm?.- From Number Crunching to Virtual Reality: Mathematics, Physics and Computation.- Modeling the Cardiovascular System: A Mathematical Challenge.- Math in the Entertainment Industry.- Three Problems in Real Algebraic Geometry and Their Descendants.- Primitive Automorphic Forms.- Mathematical Challenges from Molecular Evolution.- Mathematical Methods in Medical Imaging: Analysis of Vascular Structures for Liver Surgery Planning.- Systems of Conservation Laws: A Challenge for the XXIst Century.- RIMS for the 21st Century.- Discrete Probability.- Probability Theory - A Somewhat Narrow Perspective.- Error-Correcting Codes and Curves over Finite Fields.- The Turing Machine Paradigm in Contemporary Computing.- Randomization of Algebra and Algebraization of Probability - An Attempt at Prediction.- Dynamical Systems: Moving into the Next Century.- Noise in the Climate System - Ubiquitous, Constitutive and Concealing.- Questions About Polytopes.- Biographies.

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