The Australian Mathematical Society Gazette Volume 25 Number 1 - March 1998 Contents Editorial Godfrey Harold Hardy, 1877-1947 E.R. Love Essential Mathematical Skills for Undergraduate Students (in applied mathematics, science and engineering) S.I. Barry and S. Davis Development of Teaching Modules on the Internet K. Tognetti and I. Doust Abstract for a Teaching Module K. Tognetti Discontinuities in Geometric Optimization (PDF format) A. Jones Some More First-Order Recurrence Relations and their Inverses (PDF format) R.L. Ollerton and R.N. Whitaker Book Review: "A=B" reviewed by I. Wanless Software Review: Fields and Operators (Windows): Lascaux Graphics reviewed by R. Champion Portrait of Professor Bernhard Neumann C. Praeger Software Review: Maple V release 5 reviewed by G. Keady Announcements and Reports: Anziam Award for Outstanding New Researchers Progress Report on 1998 Annual Meeting of the AMS Joint Aust. MS -- American MS Meeting in Melbourne ICIAM 99 ASICMI Report Report On "Wet and Discrete" special interest meeting ANZIAM 98 National Research Symposia in the Mathematical Sciences 3rd International Conference On Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing FASTS Top Ten Policies for 1998 Australian Mathematical Society News Visiting Mathematicians Conferences Notices of Preprints