LETTERS
Message from the Editor........... R. M. CORLESS p. 1
Message from the Book Review Editor...... C. Cetinkaya p. 1
Editor's Corner
Formal Review of Articles in the Bulletin ........ A. Lobo p. 2
Formally Reviewed Articles
Resolvent and Rational Canonical Forms of Matrices ... J. Della Dora and F. Jung p. 4
Computing Radical Expressions for Roots of Unity ...... A. Weber p. 11
Book Reviews
Bini and Pan's Polynomial and Matrix Computations ... I. Emiris and A. Galligo p. 21
Gaylord and Nishidate's Modelling Nature with Cellular Automata using Mathematica ... C. Adami p. 24
Technical Report Abstracts ...... E. Volcheck p. 26
Announcements
ACA '97 ...... M. Wester p. 29
ISSAC '97 ...... B. Char p. 30
PASCO '97 ...... H. Hong p. 31
JSC Special Issue CFP ...... H.J. Stetter and S.M. Watt p. 32