Includes bibliographies.

Sofia Kovalevskaia a biographical sketch ; Sonya Kovalevskaya's place in nineteenthcentury mathematics ; Changing views of Sofia Kovalevskaia ; Isospectral metrics and finite Riemannian coverings ; Estimating small eigenvalues of Riemann surfaces ; A conformal analog of Bernstein's theorem for timelike surfaces in Minkowski pace ; Geometry of canonical forms ; Flows on onal Jacobians ; Some linearly induced MorseSmale systems, the QR algorithm and the Toda lattice ; Some geometric developments related to Kowalewski's work ; Largetime behavior of solutions to a scalar conservation law in several space dimensions ; Strong solutions for strongly damped quasilinear wave equations ; Quasicrystals, tilings, and algebraic number theory: some preliminary connections ; An introduction to quasicrystals ; Geometric analysis in crystalline media Ann Hibner Koblitz ; Roger Cooke ; Ann Hibner Koblitz ; Dennis M DeTurck and Carolyn S Gordon ; Jozef Dodziuk Thea Pignataro Burton Randol and Dennis Sullivan ; Tilla Klotz Milnor ; Richard S Palais and ChuuLian Terng ; Emma Previato ; Michael Shub and Alphonse Thomas Vasquez ; ChuuLian Terng ; Patricia Bauman ; Hans Engler ; Enrico Bombieri and Jean E Taylor ; John W Cahn and Jean E Taylor ; Jean E Taylor