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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 59, Number 5
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 59, Number 5 (1953)
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953)
Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 59, Number 5 (1953)
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The origin and growth of mathematical concepts
R. L. Wilder PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953), 423-448
The June meeting in Missoula
J. W. Green and Harold Chatland PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953), 449-458
A communication from the treasurer
Albert E. Meder Jr. PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953), 459-463
Notes
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953), 486-492
New publications
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953), 493-494

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

Sur quelques propriétés des valeurs caractéristiques des matrices carrées, by M. Parodi.
Reviewer: A. C. Schaeffer
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953), 464-467
Foundations of the nonlinear theory of elasticity, by V. V. Novozhilov.
Reviewer: C. Truesdell
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953), 467-473
The higher arithmetic, by H. Davenport.
Reviewer: P. T. Bateman
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953), 473-474
Éléments de mathématique, by N. Bourbaki.
Reviewer: E. Artin
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953), 474-479
Inhalt und Mass, by K. Mayrhofer.
Reviewer: J. Dieudonné
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953), 479-480
Lectures in abstract algebra. Vol. II. Linear algebra, by N. Jacobson.
Reviewer: J. Dieudonné
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953), 480-483
Reviewer: R. P. Boas, Jr.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953), 483-484
The collected works of Bernhard Riemann, by H. Weber.
Topologie, by C. Kuratowski.
Tables of Chebyshev polynomials $S_n \left( x \right)$ and $C_n \left( x \right)$.
Construction and applications of conformal maps, by E. F. Beckenbach.
Mémoires sur la théorie des systèmes des équations différentielles linéaires, by J. A. Lappo-Danilevsky.
Theory and application of the gamma function, with a table of the gamma function for complex arguments significant to the sixth decimal place, by W. Sibagaki.
The meaning of relativity, by Albert Einstein.
Les transformations birationnelles du plan, by L. Godeaux.
Fluid dynamics.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953), 484-485