BID TO PUBLISH MATHEMATICS TOMORROW

An IMU Book by Prominent Mathematicians
World Mathematical Year 2000

The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is publishing a book entitled "Mathematics Tomorrow" to celebrate the turn of the century, with articles by prominent mathematicians on how they see the present state of Mathematics, its main problems and prospects for the coming century. The editors are V. Arnold (Chair), M. Atiyah, P. Lax and B. Mazur. As of now, we expect to have 36 articles, of about 20 pages each, by early December 1998 and the book to be ready by July 1999. We have asked the authors to provide their texts in Latex or Amstex files, with figures in PostScript.

The IMU Executive Committee has decided to ask for bids from international publishers. The bids should address the following items:

1. Expected retail price;
2. quality of printing;
3. Number of books in the first edition;
4. Free copies for authors and for IMU;
5. Percentage of income from sales as copy rights to IMU.