In This Issue

Richard Karp is the founding director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley.

Like every city, Boston has its springtime traditions: the beginning of baseball season, the Boston Marathon...and potholes.

At Oxbridge, the standard nickname for Oxford and Cambridge, things last a long time.

James Case reviews "Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory," by Avner Ash and Robert Gross.

Budgets, especially the president’s budget for an upcoming fiscal year, always reflect a bit of wishful thinking.

Philip Davis reviews Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative.

Inverse problems are about deciphering indirectly measured data of an unknown quantity, such as the inner structure of a patient.

John Bell, Wendell Fleming, and Ruth Williams were elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

An auction design by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awards contracts for durable medical goods.