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Donald E. Knuth Sequences with precisely $k+1$ $k$-blocks: Solution to Problem E2307 773--774
Donald E. Knuth Schröder's problem: Solution to Problem E2315 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910
Donald E. Knuth Groups: Solution to Problem E2328 . . . 1138--1139
Donald E. Knuth Computer Science and its Relation to Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--343
Donald E. Knuth Elementary Problem E2492 (binomial coefficients and mods) . . . . . . . . . 902
Donald E. Knuth Solution to Elementary Problem E2492 (binomial coefficients and mods) . . . . 855 Donald E. Knuth Problem 6049 (cyclic permutation generators) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856 Donald E. Knuth Problem 6050 (random maximization) . . . 856
Donald E. Knuth Elementary Problem E2613 (compact sets) 656
Donald E. Knuth Elementary Problem E2636 (diphages and triphages) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Donald E. Knuth Solution to Problem 6049 (cyclic permutation generators) . . . . . . . . 397 Donald E. Knuth Solution to Elementary Problem E2613 (compact sets) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827--828
Lajos Takács An increasing continuous singular function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--37
Anonymous Extended mean values . . . . . . . . . . 84--90
P. R. Halmos Schauder bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--257
H. S. Bear and G. N. Hile Gradient characterizations of analyticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--337 Michael J. Norris and William Yslas Vélez A characterization of the splitting of inseparable algebraic extensions . . . . 338--341 J. E. Humphreys Hilbert's fourteenth problem . . . . . . 341--353
Donald E. Knuth Elementary Problem E2636 (diphages and triphages) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--386
R. P. Boas Extremal problems for polynomials . . . 473--475
John Milnor Analytic proofs of the ``hairy ball theorem'' and the Brouwer fixed-point theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--524 Kenneth I. Gross On the evolution of noncommutative harmonic analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 525--548 L. Carlitz Some product-sum identities . . . . . . 570--572 R. Cignoli and J. Hounie Functions with arbitrarily small periods 582--584
Martha Zelinka Edward Griffith Begle . . . . . . . . . 629--631 Heinz Bauer Approximation and abstract boundaries 632--647 John E. Wetzel On the division of the plane by lines 647--656 E. B. Leach and M. C. Sholander Corrections to: ``Extended mean values'' [Amer. Math. Monthly \bf 85 (1978), no. 2, 84--90, MR \bf 58 #22428] . . . . . . 656--656 Calvin C. Moore Approximately finite von Neumann algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--659 John E. Wetzel Dissections of a simply-connected plane domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660--661 A. D. Wadhwa Some convergent subseries of the harmonic series . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--663 Gérard Letac Cauchy functional equation again . . . . 663--664
Donald E. Knuth Solution to Problem 6050 (random maximization) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686--688
R. L. Wilder Evolution of the topological concept of ``connected'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720--726 J. C. Alexander Matrices, eigenvalues, and complex projective space . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--733 Solomon W. Golomb Cyclotomic polynomials and factorization theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734--737 Cletus O. Oakley and Justine C. Baker The Morley trisector theorem . . . . . . 737--745 L. Carlitz and Jo Ann Lutz A characterization of permutation polynomials over a finite field . . . . 746--748 R. P. Boas and H. Pollard and D. V. Widder The asymptotic behavior of derivatives 749--750 Barry Powell Proof of a special case of Fermat's last theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750--751 H. Guggenheimer The Jordan and Schoenflies theorems in axiomatic geometry . . . . . . . . . . . 753--756 Gebhard Greiter A simple proof for a theorem of Kronecker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756--757
Ivan Niven Convex polygons that cannot tile the plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--792 Donald G. Saari Apportionment methods and the House of Representatives . . . . . . . . . . . . 792--802 Leon Gerber A simple improvement on the binomial series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808--809 K. Athreya and D. McDonald and P. Ney Coupling and the renewal theorem . . . . 809--814 Patrick J. O'Hara and Rene S. Rodriguez Polynomials with zeros uniformly distributed on the unit circle . . . . . 814--817
A. E. Livingston and M. L. Livingston The congruence $a^{r+s}\equiv a^{r} \pmod {m}$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--100
Emma Lehmer Rational reciprocity laws . . . . . . . 467--472
Robert Osserman Bonnesen-style isoperimetric inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--29 David Gale Tone perception and decomposition of periodic functions . . . . . . . . . . . 36--42 R. Daniel Mauldin The existence of non-measurable sets . . 45--46 B. G. Basmaji Complex representations of metacyclic groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48
R. P. Boas Award for distinguished service to Otto Neugebauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78 David P. Roselle Award of the Chauvenet Prize to Dr. Neil J. A. Sloane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79 Steven J. Brams and Philip D. Straffin, Jr. Prisoner's dilemma and professional sports drafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--88 George E. Andrews An introduction to Ramanujan's ``lost'' notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--108 James K. Knowles Universal states of finite anti-plane shear: Ericksen's problem in miniature 109--113 Heiko Harborth Divisibility of $(^{m}_{k})$ by $m(m-1)\cdots (m-h+1)$ . . . . . . . . . 115--117 S. A. Kenton and S. D. Shore The Pixley-Roy space is continuously semimetrizable . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119 Edward T. H. Wang When is the permanent function convex on the set of doubly stochastic matrices 119--121 C. L. Belna and M. J. Evans and P. D. Humke Symmetric and strong differentiation . . 121--123
Karl Stromberg The Banach-Tarski paradox . . . . . . . 151--161 D. B. Oulton and D. J. Wollkind and R. N. Maurer A stability analysis of a prototype moving boundary problem in heat flow and diffusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--186 Andrew P. Guinand The umbral method: a survey of elementary mnemonic and manipulative uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--195 Salomon Bochner Fourier series came first . . . . . . . 197--199 Scott Garten Corrections to: ``Irregular integers'' (Amer. Math. Monthly \bf 85 (1978), no. 3, 165--172) by M. Schreiber . . . . . . 199--199 T. M. K. Davison A generalization of regulated functions 202--204 Robert Sine and Vladislav Kre\uìnovi\vc Remarks on billiards . . . . . . . . . . 204--206 Emad El-Neweihi and Frank Proschan Unified treatment of inequalities of the Weierstrass product type . . . . . . . . 206--208 William C. Waterhouse The normal basis theorem . . . . . . . . 212--212 G. J. Miel The Kantorovich theorem with optimal error bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--215
Dorothy L. Bernstein The role of applications in pure mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--253 Keith Harrow Theoretical and applied computer science: antagonism or symbiosis . . . . 253--260 J. C. Fisher Geometry according to Euclid . . . . . . 260--270 D. V. Widder The Airy transform . . . . . . . . . . . 271--277 Ronald J. Evans Silverman's game on intervals . . . . . 277--281 Erwin Turdza The solutions of an inequality for the $n$th iterate of a function . . . . . . 281--283 Paul D. Humke and Lawrence L. Krajewski A characterization of circles which contain rational points . . . . . . . . 287--290 Y. H. Wang Dependent random variables with independent subsets . . . . . . . . . . 290--292 David H. Anderson The application of a classical inequality to population mathematics . . 294--296 Robert M. Young An elementary proof of a trigonometric identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297 Lud\vek Zají\vcek An elementary proof of the one-dimensional density theorem . . . . 297--298
Shiing Shen Chern From triangles to manifolds . . . . . . 339--349 J. L. Brenner Student days---1930 . . . . . . . . . . 350--356 E. J. Barbeau Euler subdues a very obstreperous series 356--372 Robert Baillie Sums of reciprocals of integers missing a given digit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--374 Patrick Morton A generalization of Zolotarev's theorem 374--375 Denis Higgs and Paul de Witte On products of transpositions and their graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--380 R. Výborn\'y On the use of a differentiable homotopy in the proof of the Cauchy theorem . . . 380--382
Steven H. Schot Geometrical properties of the penosculating conics of a plane curve 449--457 T. Bruce McLean ${V}$-flexing the hexahexaflexagon . . . 457--466 Trevor Evans Universal algebra and Euler's officer problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--473 E. Lutwak On isoperimetric inequalities related to a problem of Moser . . . . . . . . . . . 476--477 George E. Andrews A note on partitions and triangles with integer sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--478 Dan Eustice and M. S. Klamkin On the coefficients of a partial fraction decomposition . . . . . . . . . 478--480 A. M. Russell Further comments on the variation function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--482 Alexander Abian An ultimate proof of Rolle's theorem . . 484--485 A. Day Bradley Prismatoid, prismoid, generalized prismoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--490 Bertram Walsh More on gradient characterizations of analyticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--491
Bernard O. Koopman Search and its optimization . . . . . . 527--540 Nicolas D. Goodman Mathematics as an objective science . . 540--551 Ernst Snapper What is mathematics . . . . . . . . . . 551--557 R. L. Cooke The Cantor-Lebesgue theorem . . . . . . 558--565 William H. Ruckle The bounded consistency theorem . . . . 566--571 Murray Eisenberg and Robert Guy A proof of the hairy ball theorem . . . 572--574 John Ginsburg and Bill Sands Minimal infinite topological spaces . . 574--576 Shigeru Haruki A property of quadratic polynomials . . 577--579 Samuel S. Wagstaff, Jr. Some questions about arithmetic progressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--582 Ira Rosenholtz There is no differentiable metric for ${\bf R}^{n}$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--586
Azriel Rosenfeld Digital topology . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--630 John W. Pratt Finding how many roots a polynomial has in $(0,\,1)$ or $(0,\,\infty )$ . . . . 630--637 Richard Johnsonbaugh Summing an alternating series . . . . . 637--648 Emil Grosswald Recent applications of some old work of Laguerre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648--658 Karel Hrbacek Nonstandard set theory . . . . . . . . . 659--677 J. R. Nurcombe A sequence of convergence tests . . . . 679--681 Richard J. Bagby Taylor polynomials and difference quotients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--684 C. David Minda Conformal automorphisms of circular regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684--686 J. H. Jordan and Ray Walch and R. J. Wisner Triangles with integer sides . . . . . . 686--689 Walter Leighton A useful lemma in the theory of second-order linear differential equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--694 George Miel An algorithm for the calculation of $\pi$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694--697
D. H. Lehmer and Emma Lehmer Picturesque exponential sums. I . . . . 725--733 Wendell Mills and Boris Weisfeiler and Allan M. Krall Discovering theorems with a computer: the case of $y^{\prime} ={\rm sin}(xy)$ 733--739 John Dawson The Gödel incompleteness theorem from a length-of-proof perspective . . . . . . 740--747 Marvin Jay Greenberg Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries without continuity . . . . . . . . . . . 757--764 I. J. Schoenberg On a problem of Steinhaus on lattice points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--766 A. L. Brown The Borsuk-Ulam theorem and orthogonality in normed linear spaces 766--767 C. H. Heiberg Extrema for functions of several variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--770 Phyllis Joan Cassidy Products of commutators are not always commutators: an example . . . . . . . . 772--772
Desmond Fearnley-Sander Hermann Grassmann and the creation of linear algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809--817 David Gale The game of Hex and the Brouwer fixed-point theorem . . . . . . . . . . 818--827 Marvin Jay Greenberg The ``real'' projective plane without continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827--832 Albert Nijenhuis A minimal-path algorithm for the ``money changing problem'' . . . . . . . . . . . 832--835 Deborah Tepper Haimo and Franklin Tepper Haimo Comments and complements . . . . . . . . 836--841 David W. Kammler and Robert J. McGlinn Local conditioning of parametric forms used to approximate continuous functions 841--845 R. D. Nelson Perfect quadrilaterals . . . . . . . . . 845--847 James M. Briggs and Thomas Schaffter Measure and cardinality . . . . . . . . 852--855
A. Ecker Comment on the note: ``The congruence $a^{r+s}\equiv a^{r} \pmod {m}$'' [Amer. Math. Monthly 85 (1978), no. 2, 97--100, MR 57 #12355] by A. E. Livingston and M. L. Livingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811--814
R. L. Wilder Correction and addendum to: ``Evolution of the topological concept of `connected'\thinspace '' [Amer. Math. Monthly \bf 85 (1978), no. 9, 720--726, MR 80f:01019a] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Solomon W. Golomb Corrections to: ``Cyclotomic polynomials and factorization theorems'' [Amer. Math. Monthly \bf 85 (1978), no. 9, 734--737, MR 80e:10011] . . . . . . . . 338--339
Katherine E. McLain and Hugh M. Edgar A note on S. W. Golomb's: ``Cyclotomic polynomials and factorization theorems'' [Amer. Math. Monthly \bf 85 (1978), no. 9, 734--737, MR 80e:10011] . . . . . . . 753--753