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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 44, Number 3
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Syzygies, degrees, and choices from a life in mathematics. Retiring Presidential Address
David Eisenbud PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 331-359
From superconductors and four-manifolds to weak interactions
Edward Witten PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 361-391
A normal form for elliptic curves
Harold M. Edwards PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 393-422
Particle trajectories in solitary water waves
Adrian Constantin and Joachim Escher PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 423-431

Mathematical Perspectives


About the cover: Invariants
Yuri Tschinkel PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 433-437
Selections Reprinted from Mathematical Reviews
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 439-445

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

Orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle, Parts 1 and 2, by Barry Simon.
Reviewer: Paul Nevai
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 447-470
Gesammelte Werke. Vol. II, Grundzüge der Mengenlehre; Vol. IV, Analysis, Algebra, und Zahlentheorie; Vol. V, Astronomie, Optik, und Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Vol. VII, Philosophisches Werk, by Felix Hausdorff.
Reviewer: Jeremy Gray
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 471-474
Rings, modules, and the total, by Friedrich Kasch and Adolf Mader.
Equivalence and duality for module categories, with tilting and cotilting for rings, by Robert R. Colby and Kent R. Fuller.
Reviewer: Barbara L. Osofsky
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 475-480
James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish mathematician in a Victorian world, by Karen Hunger Parshall.
Reviewer: Judith Grabiner
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 481-485
Stochastic calculus of variations in mathematical finance, by Paul Malliavin and Anton Thalmaier.
Reviewer: David Nualart
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 487-492
The mathematics of the Bose gas and its condensation, by Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer, Jan Philip Solovej and Jakob Yngvason.
Reviewer: T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 493-496
Malliavin calculus with applications to stochastic partial differential equations, by Marta Sanz-Solé.
Reviewer: Donald Dawson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 497-504
Self-similar groups, by Volodymyr Nekrashevych.
Reviewer: Rostislav Grigorchuk
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 505-512