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BULLETIN Number 57 Summer 2006

ISSN 0791-5578

Contents

Editorial

Notices from the Society

• Officers and Local Representatives 1
• Applying for IMS Membership 2

Letter from the President of the Société Mathématique de France 5

Response of the RIA Committee for Mathematical Sciences to the Review of Mathematics in Post-Primary Education 11

Announcements of Conferences 21

Reports on IMS supported Conferences 24

Research Notes

• Brendan Guilfoyle and Wilhelm Klingenberg:
  On Hamilton's Characteristic Functions for Reflection, 29

Survey Articles

• David W. Lewis:
  Quaternion Algebras and the Algebraic Legacy of Hamilton's Quaternions, 41

Miscellenea

• John M. Burns and David O'Keeffe:
  Lattice Polygons in the Plane and the Number 12, 65
• Finbarr Holland:
  Some Mean Inequalities, 69
• Anthony G. O'Farrell:
  The Western Front, 81
• M. R. F. Smyth:
  The MacCool/West Point, 93

Book Reviews

• Ariel Blanco:
  Essential Topology (by M. D. Crossley), 99
• Ariel Blanco:
  A Taste of Topology (by V. Runde), 101

Corrigendum

A. S. Detinko and D. L. Flannery:
Corrigendum to ``Locally Nilpotent Linear Groups'' (vol. 56, 29-36), 103