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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: 1565793
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Title: Convegno internazionale sulle equazioni lineari alle derivate parziali
Additional book information: Trieste, 25-28 Agosto 1954. Ed. by the Unione Matematica Italiana with the assistance of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Rome, Cremonese, 1955. 13+233 pp. 3000 lire.

Authors: F. Riesz and B. Sz.-Nagy
Title: Functional analysis
Additional book information: Trans. by L. F. Boron from the 2d French edition of Leçons d'analyse fonctionelle. New York, Ungar, 1955. 12+468 pp. $10.00.

Authors: J. A. Stratton, P. M. Morse, L. J. Chu, J. D. C. Little and F. J. Corbató
Title: Spheroidal wave functions
Additional book information: New York, The Technology Press of M. I. T. and John Wiley and Sons, 1956. 13+613 pp. $12.50.

Authors: H. Margenau and G. M. Murphy
Title: The mathematics of physics and chemistry
Additional book information: 2d ed. Princeton, van Nostrand, 1956. 12+604 pp. $7.95.

Author: H. A. Thurston
Title: The number system
Additional book information: New York, Interscience, 1956. 8+134 pp. $2.50.

Author: A. Einstein
Title: The meaning of relativity
Additional book information: 5th ed., including the relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1955. 169 pp. $3.75.

Review Information:

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 423-424
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1956-10058-X