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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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Erratum: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 61, Number 3, Part 1 (1955), 261--261
MathSciNet review: 1565653
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Title: The geometry of René Descartes
Additional book information: Trans. from the French and Latin by D. E. Smith and M. L. Latham. With a facsimile of the first edition, 1637. New York, Dover, 1954. 14+244 pp. $2.95 cloth, $1.50 paper.

Author: N. Wax
Title: Selected papers on noise and stochastic processes
Additional book information: New York, Dover, 1954. 6+337 pp. $3.50 cloth, $2.00 paper.

Author: L. N. Ridenour
Title: Modern physics for the engineer
Additional book information: New York, McGraw-Hill, 1954. 20+499 pp. $7.50.

Title: Table of binomial coefficients
Additional book information: Prepared for the Mathematical Tables Committees of The British Association and The Royal Society under the editorship of J. C. P. Miller. Cambridge University Press, 1954. 8+162 pp. $5.50.

Review Information:

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 90-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1955-09882-3