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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: 1565849
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Book Information:

Author: N. I. Achieser
Title: Theory of approximation
Additional book information: Trans. from the Russian by Charles J. Hyman. New York, Frederick Ungar, 1956. 10+307 pp. $8.50.

Author: A. N. Kolmogorov
Title: Foundations of the theory of probability
Additional book information: 2d English edition. Trans. from the German by Nathan Morrison, with an added bibliography by A. T. Bharucha-Reid. New York, Chelsea, 1956. 8+84 pp. $2.50.

Author: A. G. Kurosh
Title: Vol. II. The theory of groups.
Additional book information: Trans. from the 2d Russian edition by K. A. Hirsch, with supplementary material by the translator. New York, Chelsea, 1956. 308 pp. $4.95.

Author: S. Lefschetz
Title: Vol. III Contributions to the theory of nonlinear oscillations.
Additional book information: Annals of Math. Studies no. 36, Princeton University Press, 1956. 7+285 pp. $4.00.

Authors: J. B. Diaz and L. E. Payne
Title: Proceedings of the conference on differential equations
Additional book information: held at the University of Maryland, March 17-19, 1955. College Park, University of Maryland Book Store, 1956. 12+294 pp.

Author: L. Bianchi
Title: Opere.
Additional book information: Ed. by the Unione Matematica Italiana with the assistance of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Rome, Cremonese, 1956. 481 pp. 4500 lire.

Author: G. Ricci-Curbastro
Title: Opere. Vol. I: Note e memorie
Additional book information: Ed. by the Unione Matematica Italiana with the assistance of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Rome, Cremonese, 1956. 441 pp. 4000 lire.

Review Information:

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1957), 163-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1957-10119-0