Israel Journal of Mathematics Vol. 96 Part A (1996) AUTHOR TITLE PAGE Dedicated to the memory of Shimshon Avraham Amitsur Avinoam Mann Shimshon Avraham Amitsur (1921-1994) ix G. Agnarsson, Recognition of matrix rings II 1 S. A. Amitsur, J. C. Robson S. A. Amitsur, Finite-dimensional subalgebras of division D. Baum rings 15 S. A. Amitsur, Algebras over infinite fields, revisited 23 Lance W. Small Y. Bahturin, On the generalized Lie structure of D. Fischman, associative algebras 27 S. Montgomery Allen Berele, Involution codimensions and trace codimensions Antonio Giambruno, of matrices are asymptotically equal 49 Amitai Regev George M. Bergman On the growth of algebras with bialgebra action 63 L. Bokut', Grobner-Shirshov based for quantum enveloping P. Malcomson algebras 97 Amiram Braun Localization, completion and the AR property in Noetherian P.I. rings 115 Eric S. Brussel Decomposability and Embeddability of discretely Henselian division algebras 141 Miriam Cohen, Determinants, integrality and Noether's Sara Westreich, theorem for quantum commutative algebras 185 Shenglin Zhu P. M. Cohn On skew field coproducts with a finite extension 223 Vesselin Drensky, Exact asymptotic behaviour of the Amitai Regev codimensions of the some P.I. algebras 231 Burton Fein, Sums of corestrictions of cyclic algebras 243 Murray Achacher Timithy J. Ford The Brauer group of a curve over a strictly local discrete valuation ring 259 Avital Frumkin The irreducible characters of the Lie superalgebras of type A(n.m) and filtration of their Kac modules 267 Antonio Gianbruno, Central polynomials and matrix invariants 281 Angela Valenti