Irish Mathematical Society > Bull40

BULLETIN Number 40 Easter 1998

ISSN 0791-5578

Contents

IMS Officers and Local Representatives ......... ii
Notes on Applying for IMS Membership ......... iii
Minutes of IMS meeting 23.12.1997 ................... 1
UCD graduate share top prize ............................ 5
Conference Announcements
Eleventh September IMS meeting ....... 6
Joint IMS and LMS meeting ....... 7
Groups in Galway 1998 ....... 8
Articles
The Baer-Specker group .......Eoin Coleman ... 9
Expressing unipotent matrices over rings as products of involutions ....... Thomas J. Laffey ... 24
On a comment of Douglas concerning Widom's Theorem ....... Mícheál Ó Searcóid ... 31
The fundamental group of non-negatively curved manifolds ....... David Wraith ... 35
On the equation \phi(x^m - y^m) = xⁿ + yⁿ ....... Florian Luca ... 46
Comments on the Mathfit programme ....... Anthony Karel Seda ... 56
Chaos: The evolution of a definition ....... Pat Touhey ... 60
The tethered goat - a calculus approach ....... Michael Brennan ... 71
Book Review
Rings and Fields by Graham Ellis .... Des MacHale ....................75