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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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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1565523
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Book Information:

Author: H. Weber
Title: The collected works of Bernhard Riemann
Additional book information: with the assistance of R. Dedekind. With a supplement ed. by M. Noether and W. Wirtinger. A new introduction by Hans Lewy. New York, Dover, 1953. 10+10+558+8+116 pp. $2.55 paperbound, $4.95 clothbound.

Author: C. Kuratowski
Title: Topologie
Additional book information: 3d ed. (Monografie Matematyczne, vol. 20.) Warsaw, Polish Mathematical Society, 1952. 12+450 pp. $7.50.

Title: Tables of Chebyshev polynomials $S_n \left( x \right)$ and $C_n \left( x \right)$
Additional book information: (National Bureau of Standards Applied Mathematics Series, no. 9.) Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1952. 30+161 pp. $1.75.

Author: E. F. Beckenbach
Title: Construction and applications of conformal maps
Additional book information: (National Bureau of Standards Applied Mathematics Series, no. 18.) Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1952. 6+280 pp. $2.25.

Author: J. A. Lappo-Danilevsky
Title: Mémoires sur la théorie des systèmes des équations différentielles linéaires
Additional book information: Three volumes in one. New York, Chelsea, 1953. 14+254+4+208+4+204 pp. $10.00.

Author: W. Sibagaki
Title: Theory and application of the gamma function, with a table of the gamma function for complex arguments significant to the sixth decimal place
Additional book information: Tokyo, Iwanami Syoten, 1952. 6+202 pp.

Author: Albert Einstein
Title: The meaning of relativity
Additional book information: 4th ed. Princeton University Press, 1953. 4+168 pp. $3.50.

Author: L. Godeaux
Title: Les transformations birationnelles du plan
Additional book information: (Mémorial des Sciences Mathématiques, no. 122.) Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1953. 71 pp. 900 fr.

Title: Fluid dynamics
Additional book information: (Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, vol. 4.) New York, McGraw-Hill, 1953. 5+186 pp. $7.00.

Review Information:

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1953), 484-485
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1953-09730-0