Skip to Main Content

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)

The 2020 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.84.

What is MCQ? The Mathematical Citation Quotient (MCQ) measures journal impact by looking at citations over a five-year period. Subscribers to MathSciNet may click through for more detailed information.

 

Book Review

The AMS does not provide abstracts of book reviews. You may download the entire review from the links below.


MathSciNet review: 1563263
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Hermann Weyl
Title: Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik
Additional book information: Second revised edition. Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1931. xi+366 pp.

Author: Hermann Weyl
Title: The Theory of Groups and Quantum Mechanics
Additional book information: Translated from the second revised German edition by H. P. Robertson. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1932. xxii+422 pp.

Author: Eugen Wigner
Title: Gruppentheorie und ihre Anwendung auf die Quantenmechanik der Atomspektren
Additional book information: (Die Wissenschaft: Einzeldarstellungen aus der Naturwissenschaft und der Technik, Band 85, herausgegeben von Wilhelm Westphal.) Braunschweig, F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1931. viii+332 pp.

Author: B. L. van der Waerden
Title: Die Gruppentheoretische Methode in der Quantenmechanik
Additional book information: (Die Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften in Einzeldarstellungen, Band 36.) Berlin, Springer, 1932. viii+157 pp.

Review Information:

Reviewer: M. H. Stone
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (1936), 165-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1936-06266-X