SURVEY and REVIEW
Introduction 367
Recent Developments in Inverse Acoustic Scattering Theory,
David Cotton, Joe Coyle, and Peter Monk 369
PROBLEMS and TECHNIQUES
Introduction 4 1 5 Numerical Study of Flows ofTwo Immiscible Liquids at Low Reynolds Number, jie Li and Yuriko Renordy 4 1 7 An Efficient Method for a Class of Continuous Nonlinear Knapsack
Problems, A. Melman and G. Rabinowitz 440
SIGEST
Introduction 449 Is the Pollution Effect of the FEM Avoidable for the Helmholtz Equation Considering High Wave Numbers?, Ivo M. Kabuska and StefanA. Sauter (from SIAM journal on Numerical Analysis) 451
EDUCATION
Introduction 485 The Many Proofs and Applications of Perron's Theorem, C. R. MacCluer 487 Orthogonal Sampling Formulas:A Unified Approach, Antonio G. Garcia 499
BOOK REVIEWS
Introduction 5 1 3
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Featured Review: PDE Booki, Present and Future, j . David Logon 5 1 5
Statistical Modeling by Wavelets (Brani Vidakovic), Guy Battle 522 Analytical Theory of Biological Populations (Alfred J. Lotka, David P. Smith, and HeleneRossert), j. M. Cashing 523 Semimartingales and Their Statistical Inference (B. L. S. Prakasa Rao), James Davidson 524 Elliptic Curves: Function Theory, Geometry.Arithmetic (Henry McKean and Victor Moll),
Bernard Deconinck 525 Nonsmooth Analysis and Control Theory (F. H. Clarke.Yu. S. Ledyaev, R. J. Stern, and
P. R.Wolenski). Sjw Didrik Flam 527 Generalized Riccati Theory and Robust Control (V. lonescu, C. Oara, and M.Weiss),
Zoron Gajic 528 Numerical Linear Algebra for High-Performance Computers (jack J. Dongarra, lain S. Duff, Danny C. Sorensen, and Henk A. van derVorst), Nicholas ]. Higham 519 Geostatistics: Modeling Spatial Uncertainty (jean-Paul Chiles and Pierre Delfiner),
Benjamin Kedem 530 Neural Networks and Analog Computation—Beyond the Turing Limit (HavaT. Siegelmann), M. Krishnatnoorthy 531
CONTINUED FROM BACK COVER
Reflecting Stochastic Differential Equations with Jumps and Applications (Situ Rong), Roche/ Kuske 532 Theories of Computability (Nicholas Pippenger), Robert McNoughton 534 iterative Methods for Optimization (C.T. Kelley),^. Lorry Nazareth 535 Wavelets (joran Bergh, Frederik Ekstedt.and Martin Lindberg). Yves Nieverge/t 539 Mathematical Topics in Fluid Mechanics: Compressible Models,Volume 2 (P. L Lions), Monarosario Padula 541 Orthogonal Rational Functions (A. Bultheel, P. Gonzalez-Vera, E. Hendriksen.and 0. Njastad), Victor K. Pan 543 The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics (B. S. Everitt), Emily SiSverman 545 Rational Extended Thermodynamics. Second Edition (Ingo Muller andTommaso Ruggeri), M. S/emrod 545 Compartmental Modeling with Networks (Gilbert G.Walter and M. Contreras), Ha/ L Smith 546 Erdos on Graphs: His Legacy of Unsolved Problems (Fan Chung and Ron Graham), W.TTutte 548 Analyzing Multiscaie Phenomena Using Singular Perturbation Methods:American Mathematical Society Short Course, January 5-6, 1998, Baltimore, Maryland (Jane Cronin and Robert E.O'MalleyJr., editors), Ferdinand Verhulst 549 Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval (Michael W. Berry and Murray Browne), fanH.Winen 5 5 1 Cover ort is adapted from the paper by David Colton,foe Coyle, and Peter Monk, p. 381.
