Contents:Finite Elements for Kirchhoff and Mindlin-Reissner Plates (D Braess)A Multiscale Method for the Double Layer Potential Equation on a Polyhedron (W Dahmen et al)Shape Preserving GC2-Rational Cubic Splines (A Bhatt et al)Affine Operators and Frames of Multivariate Wavelets (C K Chui & X L Shi)Compressed Representations of Curves and Images Using a Multiresolution Box-Spline Framework (H Diamond et al)Wavelet Transformations and Matrix Compression (S L Lee et al)Using the Refinement Equation for the Construction of Pre-Wavelets VII: Strömberg Wavelets (C A Micchelli)An Extension of a Result of Rivilin on Walsh Equiconvergence (R Brück et al)Rational Complex Planar Splines (H P Dikshit et al)Constructive Aspects in Complex Analysis (D Gaier)Applications and Computation of Orthogonal Polynomials (W Gautschi)Approximation of Multivariate Functions (V Ya Lin & A Pinkus)Some Algorithms for Thin Plate Spline Interpolation to Functions of Two Variables (M J D Powell)and other papers Readership: Applied mathematicians. keywords: