Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Contents of Volume 76, Number 4
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 76, Number 4 (1970): PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970)

Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 76, Number 4 (1970): PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970)

Energy flow: Wave motion and geometrical optics: Cathleen S. Morawetz PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 661-674

The March meeting in New York: Everett Pitcher and Leonard Gillman PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 691-692

Arthur Byron Coble: Arthur Mattuck PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 693-699

Maximal monotone operators and nonlinear integral equations of Hammerstein type: Felix E. Browder, Djairo G. de Figueiredo and Chaitan P. Gupta PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 700-705

An invariance principle for the empirical process with random sample size: M. Csörgö and S. Csörgö PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 706-710

The second fundamental theorem for meromorphic minimal surfaces: E. F. Beckenbach and T. A. Cootz PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 711-716

Une remarque sur la formule de residus: Weishu Shih PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 717-718

Rigidity of hypersurfaces of constant scalar curvature: C. E. Harle PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 719

On pasting balls to handlebodies: C. D. Feustel PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 720-722

On structural stability: J. W. Robbin PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 723-726

Generalized Thom spectra and transversality for spherical fibrations: Norman Levitt PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 727-731

Hermitian bilinear forms which are not semibounded: Alan McIntosh PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 732-737

On a conjecture in the theory of permanents: Albert Nijenhuis and Herbert S. Wilf PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 738-739

A self-universal crumpled cube which is not universal: Charles D. Bass and Robert J. Daverman PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 740-742

Dimension and multiplicity for graded algebras: William Smoke PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 743-746

On the Vietoris-Begle theorem: D. G. Bourgin PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 747-751

On boundary conditions for symmetric submarkovian resolvents: Joanne Elliott and Martin R. Silverstein PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 752-757

The central limit theorem for the range of transient random walk: Naresh C. Jain and William E. Pruitt PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 758-759

On parallelism in Riemannian manifolds: Alan B. Poritz PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 760-762

Imbeddings, immersions, and cobordism of differentiable manifolds: Richard L. W. Brown PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 763-766

The singular sets of area minimizing rectifiable currents with codimension one and of area minimizing flat chains modulo two with arbitrary codimension: Herbert Federer PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 767-771

Gromoll groups, ${\text {Diff}} S^n$ and bilinear constructions of exotic spheres: P. Antonelli, D. Burghelea and P. J. Kahn PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 772-777

On the semisimplicity of integral representation rings: Janice Zemanek PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 778-779

On group algebras: Martha Smith PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 780-782

Homogeneous positively pinched Riemannian manifolds: Nolan R. Wallach PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 783-786

Product formulas for $L_n \left ( \pi \right )$: Julius L. Shaneson PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 787-791

Smooth maps transverse to a foliation: Anthony Phillips PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 792-797

On the minimum norm property of the Fourier projection in $L^1$-spaces and in spaces of continuous functions: Pol V. Lambert PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 798-804

$B$-sets and coloring problems: S. K. Stein PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 805-806

On the cohomology of stable two stage Postnikov systems: John R. Harper PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 807-809

Generalised nuclear maps in normed linear spaces: M. S. Ramanujan PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 810-813

Lie algebras of analytic vector fields and uniqueness in the Cauchy problem for first order partial differential equations: E. C. Zachmanoglou PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 814-818

A $P\left ( \phi \right )$ quantum field theory: Lon Rosen PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 819-824

Algebraic cohomology of topological groups: David Wigner PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 825-826

On Morse theory and stationary states for nonlinear wave equations: Melvyn S. Berger PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 827-829

Arithmetical properties of finite rings and algebras, and analytic number theory: John Knopfmacher PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 830-833

Koszul resolutions and the Steenrod algebra: Stewart B. Priddy PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 834-839

The condition number of a class of Rayleigh-Ritz-Galerkin matrices: Martin H. Schultz PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 840-844

Nonlinear evolution equations in Banach lattices: Bruce Calvert PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 845-850

Two new $H$-spaces: Morton Curtis and Guido Mislin PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 851-852

Relativistic covariance of an interacting quantum field: John T. Cannon and Arthur M. Jaffe PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 853-855

On the average order of some arithmetical functions: Bruce C. Berndt PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 856-859

Hölder and $L^p$ estimates for solutions of $\overline \partial u = f$ in strongly pseudoconvex domains: Norberto Kerzman PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 860-864

Branching processes with random environments: Krishna B. Athreya and Samuel Karlin PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 865-870

Decomposing the Brownian path: David Williams PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 871-873

Higher order compositions in the Adams spectral sequence: A. Lawrence PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 874-877

Modular representations of classical Lie algebras: J. E. Humphreys PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 878-882

Holomorphic functions on a Banach space: Seán Dineen PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 883-886

Book Reviews
Book reviews do not contain an abstract. You may download each review in this issue using the links below.

The algebraic theory of semigroups, by A. H. Clifford and G. B. Preston.
Semigroups, by E. S. Ljapin.
The theory of finitely generated commutative semigroups, by László Rédei.
Elements of compact semigroups, by Karl Heinrich Hofmann and Paul S. Mostert.: Reviewer: John Rhodes; Review information PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 675-683

Statistical Mechanics, by David Ruelle.: Reviewer: Elliott Lieb; Review information PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 683-688

Markov Processes with Stationary Transition Probabilities, by Kai Lai Chung.: Reviewer: J. L. Doob; Review information PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 688-690