Includes bibliographical references.

On the occasion of the 65th birthday of Hyman Bass ; A professional autobiography ; Crossing boundaries to examine the mathematics entailed in elementary teaching ; Bass's work on the Jacobian conjecture ; Torsion in genus class groups ; Hyman Bass and ubiquity: Gorenstein rings ; A salute to Euler and Dickson on the occasion of Hy's 65th birthday ; Bass's work in ring theory and projective modules ; One for almost all: generation of rm SL(n,p) by subsets of rm SL(n,\bf Z) ; Deformations of representations ; Trees, lattices and commensurators ; A survey of obstruction theory for projective modules of top rank ; The congruence subgroup problem ; Threemanifold topology and the tree for rm PSL_2 the Smith conjecture and beyond ; The development of algebraic heory before 1980 John Ewing ; Hyman Bass ; Deborah Loewenberg Ball ; Edward Formanek ; Robert M Guralnick and Christopher J Pappacena ; Craig Huneke ; Irving Kaplansky ; T Y Lam ; Alexander Lubotzky ; Andy R Magid ; Shahar Mozes ; M Pavaman Murthy ; A S Rapinchuk ; Peter B Shalen ; Charles A Weibel