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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.

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Contents of Volume 45, Number 2
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Finding meaning in error terms
Barry Mazur PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 185-228
Regularity properties in the classification program for separable amenable C$^*$-algebras
George A. Elliott and Andrew S. Toms PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 229-245
Geometry and the complexity of matrix multiplication
J. M. Landsberg PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 247-284
Tait’s conjectures and odd crossing number amphicheiral knots
A. Stoimenow PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 285-291
About the cover: The work of Jesse Douglas on minimal surfaces
Jeremy Gray and Mario Micallef PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 293-302

Mathematical Perspectives


Selections Reprinted from Mathematical Reviews
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 303-307

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

Generalized cohomology, by Akira Kono and Dai Tamaki.
Reviewer: John R. Harper
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 309-314
Quadrangular algebras, by Richard M. Weiss.
Reviewer: Mark A. Ronan
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 315-319
Harmonic measure: Geometric and analytic points of view, by Luca Capogna, Carlos E. Kenig and Loredana Lanzani.
Reviewer: John B. Garnett
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 321-327
The monodromy group, by H. Zoladek.
Reviewer: Yulij Ilyashenko
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 329-334
Extremum problems for eigenvalues of elliptic operators, by Antoine Henrot.
Reviewer: Leonid Friedlander
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 335-338