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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Contents of Volume 84, Number 6
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 84, Number 6 (1978)
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978)
Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 84, Number 6 (1978)
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Quasi-Monte Carlo methods and pseudo-random numbers
Harald Niederreiter PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 957-1041
Hill’s surfaces and their theta functions
H. P. Mckean and E. Trubowitz PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1042-1085
$G$-foliations and their characteristic classes
Franz W. Kamber and Philippe Tondeur PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1086-1124
Qualitative methods in bifurcation theory
Jerrold E. Marsden PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1125-1148
Recursively enumerable sets and degrees
Robert I. Soare PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1149-1181
The isoperimetric inequality
Robert Osserman PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1182-1238
Problems in harmonic analysis related to curvature
Elias M. Stein and Stephen Wainger PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1239-1295
Pattern formation and periodic structures in systems modeled by reaction-diffusion equations
J. M. Greenberg, B. D. Hassard and S. P. Hastings PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1296-1327
Erratum, Volume 84
Anne K. Steiner PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1381
Errata to “A note on rings with a weak algorithm”
R. E. Williams PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1381
Index to volume 84
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1382-1388

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

On numbers and games, by J. H. Conway.
Surreal numbers, by D. E. Knuth.
Reviewer: Aviezri S. Fraenkel
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1328-1336
Theory of modules, by Alexandru Solian.
Reviewer: Barry M. Mitchell
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1336-1339
Categories of algebraic systems, by Mario Petrich.
Mal′cev varieties, by Jonathan D. H. Smith.
Reviewer: G. Grätzer
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1339-1344
General relativity for mathematicians, by R. K. Sachs and H. Wu.
Reviewer: John A. Thorpe
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1344-1346
Stochastic integration and generalized martingales, by A. U. Kussmaul.
Reviewer: Philip Protter
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1346-1351
The theory of information and coding: A mathematical framework for communication, by Robert J. McEliece.
Reviewer: E. R. Berlekamp
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1351-1353
Matroid theory, by D. J. A. Welsh.
Reviewer: R. P. Dilworth
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1353-1356
The theory of error-correcting codes., by F. J. MacWilliams and N. J. A. Sloane.
Reviewer: Vera Pless
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1356-1359
Catastrophe theory: Selected papers,, by E. C. Zeeman.
Reviewer: Stephen Smale
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1360-1368
Bornologies and functional analysis, by Henri Hogbe-Nlend.
Reviewer: L. Waelbroeck
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1368-1370
Transcendental number theory, by Alan Baker.
Lectures on transcendental numbers, by Kurt Mahler.
Nombres transcendants, by Michel Waldschmidt.
Reviewer: Kenneth B. Stolarsky
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1370-1378
First order categorical logic, by Michael Makkai and Gonzalo E. Reyes.
Reviewer: J. D. Monk
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1378-1380