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Welcome to the first of our newly improved fortnightly newsletters! In this newsletter: - Latest news - Browse with Plus - Mathematical moments - Live maths ********** Latest news from Plus Is now a good time? - Mathematics is helping machines decide when is the best time to interrupt us with a call or email. http://plus.maths.org/issue25/news/aui/index.html ********** Browse with Plus Einstein's papers online - You can now browse the entire collection of Einstein's papers held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, including many digitised manuscripts, some with English translations. It is amazing to see his personal, political and other non-scientific comments sandwiched between his mathematics notes. http://www.alberteinstein.info/ ********** Mathematical moments Albrecht Durer - Born 21 May 1471, in Germany, Durer was an artist and jeweller, as well as a mathematician. He was particularly interested in applying mathematics to art, such as the techniques of proportion and perspective, and the magic square in his 1514 engraving was the first to be seen in Europe. Read more about Durer from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Durer.html Read more about mathematics and art from the Plus archive: http://plus.maths.org/indices/keyword_urls.html#MATHEMATICS%20AND%20ART ********** Live maths Mathematics, Magic and Music - The London Mathematical Society presents two popular lectures at 7pm on 1 July in London. Dr David Acheson is talking about "Mathematics, Magic and the Electric Guitar" and Professor Marcus du Sautoy is explaining "The Music of the Primes". For more information follow the '2003 Popular Lectures' link at: http://www.lms.ac.uk/ Happy reading from the Plus team ********** If you received this message you have subscribed yourself to the PLUS-ANNOUNCE mailing list via our website. If you do not wish to remain on the list please visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=plus-announce&A=1 and follow the instructions to leave the list. If you have any comments on this newsletter, or Plus Magazine, please contact us at [log in to unmask] - we are always happy to hear from our readers!