Diabetes occurring in association with pregnancy is a condition of the utmost gravity. It is one fraught with danger to both mother and child, and, in dealing with it, the skill of the obstetrician and of the physician may be alike put to the test. Fortunately, the complication is a rare one, for diabetes exerts an unfavourable influence upon the reproductive functions, giving rise at first to ...

It is, with heavy hearts, that we report that our friend and mentor, Theodore J. Rivlin, died on July 22, 2006, in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, just weeks before his 80th birthday. He had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease in his final years. Ted was an associate editor of Journal of Approximation Theory from its inception in 1968. Ted was born on September 11, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York. He rec...