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The publication of the last Volume of this excellent Encyclopedia in Mathematics may be taken as a good opportunity to give an overall assessment of this work. The main Volumes 1-5 have been reviewed individually in Zbl 0979.00007, Zbl 0988.00010, Zbl 0988.00011, Zbl 0988.00012, and Zbl 1004.00009, respectively. They contain a wealth of interesting information, written on a high, but throughout very clear and understandable, level by leading specialists mainly from Germany. It should be explicitly granted to the authors that they maintained a high discipline to restrict themselves just to a few basic remarks on a field that they master with perfection. The reviewer especially appreciates the numerous bibliographies of prominent mathematicians, as well as a large number of Essays which give a more detailed insight to some particularly important topics. These topics are: Vol. I: Algebra (M. Schlichenmaier), Algebra and Algorithms (J. von zur Gathen), General Relativity (H.-J. Schmidt), Calculus (D. Hoffmann), Analytic Geometry (A. Filler), Approximation Theory: Notions, Topics, Aims (G. Meinardus), Arabic Mathematics (H.-J. Ilgauds, K.-H. Schlote), Asymptotic Expansions (G. Walz), Mathematical Logic (H. Wolter), Axiomatic Set Theory (P. Philip), Axioms of Geometry (A. Filler), The Bernoulli Family (H.-J. Ilgauds, K.-H. Schlote), Methods of Proof (H. Wolter), Carathéodory-Koebe Theory (R. Brück), Chinese Mathematics (A. Bréard), Cluster Analysis (B. Grabowski), Coding Theory (E. G. Giessmann), The Collatz Problem (G. J. Wirsching), Computer Aided Design (J. Wallner), Differential Geometry (H. Gollek), Differential Geometry of Lines (H. Gollek), Direct Solution of Systems of Linear Equations (H. Faßbender). Vol. 2: Gauge Field Theory (H.-J. Schmidt), Electrodynamics (H.-J. Schmidt), The Ellipsoid Method (H. Th. Jongen, K. Meer), Elliptic Geometry (A. Filler), Finite Geometry (J. Eisfeld), Decision Theory (B. Grabowski), Felix Klein's Erlanger Programm (H. S. M. Coxeter), Renewal Theory (B. Grabowski), Euclidean Geometry (A. Filler), The Euler Gamma Function (R. Brück), Euler Graphs (L. Volkmann), Extrapolation (G. Walz), Factor Analysis (B. Grabowski), Factor Theory (L. Volkmann), Fermat's Last Theorem (G. J. Wirsching), Fourier Analysis (C. Schmidt), Functional Analysis (D. Werner), Function Spaces (D. Werner), Complex Function Theory (R. Brück), Fuzzy Sets (H. Rommelfanger), Galois Theory (M. Schlichenmaier), Integer Optimization (J. Kallrath), Fractional Analysis (M. Sigg), Geometric Programming (J. Wallner), History of Set Theory (P. Philip), Golden Section (G. J. Wirsching), Graph Theory (H.-J. Prömel), Group Theory (H.-J. Schmidt), The Hilbert Problems (H.-J. Schmidt), Holonomy Groups (H. Gollek), Humour in Mathematics (M. Sigg), Hyperbolic Geometry (A. Filler), Interior Point Methods (H. Th. Jongen, K. Meer). Vol. 3: Integration Theory (D. Hoffmann), Interval Calculus (G. Mayer, J. Wolff von Gudenberg), Invariant Measures on Julia Sets (R. Brück), Theory of Invariants (G. Pfister), Iteration of rational Functions (R. Brück), Iterative Solution of Systems of linear Equations (H. Faßbender), Edge Colouring (L. Volkmann), Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers (P. Philip), Partitions into Classes (B. Grabowski), Knot Theory (D. Erle), Complexity Theory (I. Wegener), Convex Analysis (M. Sigg), Cosmology (H.-J. Schmidt), Linear Algebra (A. Janßen), Logic (H. Wolter), Mathematics in the 20th Century (Sir M. Atiyah), Multigrid Methods (W. Hackbusch), Minkowski Geometry (H. Gollek), Möbius Geometry (U. May), Model Theory (H. Wolter). Vol. 4: Neuronal Nets (B. Lenze), Nevanlinna Theory (R. Brück), Nonstandard Analysis (R. Fittler), Numerical Mathematics (R. Schaback), Philosophy of Mathematics (U. Dirks), Physics (U. Kasper), \(\pi\) (M. Sigg), The Polish School of Functional Analysis (D. Werner), Polynomials (M. Schlichenmaier), Point Estimations (B. Grabowski), The Pythagorean Theorem (A. Filler), Square Integrability (M. Sigg), Quantum Mechanics (U. Kasper), Riemannian Geometry (H. Gollek), Intersection Theory (H. Kurke), The Simplex Method (H. Th. Jongen, K. Meer), Spline Functions (G. Nürnberger, G. Walz, F. Zeilfelder), String Theory (J. Louis, S. Theisen), Symplectic Geometry (M. Bordemann), Technomathematics (H. Neunzert), Thermodynamics (U. Kasper), Topology (F. Lemmermeyer), Topological Graph Theory (D. Rautenbach), Separation Axioms (F. Lemmermeyer), Vector Analysis (D. Hoffmann), Methods for Solving Eigenvalue Problems (H. Faßbender), Actuarial Mathematics (H.-J. Bartels), The Method of Induction (H. Wolter), Queueing Theory (B. Grabowski), Wavelets (I. Weinreich), Scientific Computing (G. Schumacher), Background of Graph Theory (L. Volkmann), Number Theory (G. J. Wirsching), The Zentralblatt für Mathematik (B. Wegner), Random Graphs (H.-J. Prömel, A. Taraz). In this final Volume under review here, the reader finds an Index of all entries, as well as a list of all those Fields Medallists whose bibliography is sketched in the Encyclopedia. Both, authors and editor have made an excellent job in providing the ``math community'' with such an excellent work at quite a reasonable price. Moreover, the Spektrum Verlag deserves high respect for the publication of such a work in German on a market which is almost entirely dominated by English books. The best way to express our appreciation is to buy the Encyclopedia and to supply it with the broad distribution it deserves.