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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: 1565762
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: L. Bianchi
Title: Opere. Vol. 3, Sistemi tripli ortogonali
Additional book information: Ed. by the Unione Matematica Italiana with the assistance of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Rome, Cremonese, 1954. 6+851 pp. 7500 lire.

Author: G. A. Miller
Title: Collected works
Additional book information: Vol. 4. Urbana, University of Illinois, 1955. 12+458 pp. $7.250.

Title: Tables of the cumulative binomial probability distribution
Additional book information: By the Staff of the Computation Laboratory. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1955. 61+503 pp. $8.00.

Author: H. S. M. Coxeter
Title: The real projective plane
Additional book information: 2d ed. Cambridge University Press, 1955. 12+226 pp. $4.75.

Author: B. L. van der Waerden
Title: Science awakening
Additional book information: Trans. by A. Dresden with additions of the author. Groningen, Noordhoff, 1954. 4+306 pp. $25.00 or 19 florins.

Author: W. Kaplan
Title: Lectures on functions of a complex variable
Additional book information: with the assistance of M. O. Reade and G. S. Young. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1955. 10+435 pp. $10.00.

Title: Second colloque sur les équations aux dérivées partielles
Additional book information: Tenu à Bruxelles du 24 au 26 mai 1954. Liège, Thone; Paris, Masson, 1955. 132 pp. 200 Belgian fr. or 1500 French fr.

Title: The Computer Director, June
Additional book information: New York, Berkeley Enterprises, Inc. 162 pp.

Author: M. Pantaleo
Title: Cinquant' anni di relatività,
Additional book information: Firenze, Editrice Universitaria, 1955. 50+634 pp.

Review Information:

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 74-76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1956-09992-6