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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.

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Contents of Volume 84, Number 2
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 84, Number 2 (1978)
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978)
Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 84, Number 2 (1978)
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The pure phases (harmonic functions) of generalized processes or: Mathematical physics of phase transitions and symmetry breaking
J. Fröhlich PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 165-193
Harmonic measure and estimates of Green’s function
Richard A. Hunt PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 194-200
Whitehead groups of finite groups
Michael R. Stein PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 201-212
Homotopy rigidity of linear actions: characters tell all
Arunas Liulevicius PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 213-221
The serial test for linear congruential pseudo-random numbers
Harald Niederreiter PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 273-274
Factorization indices for matrix polynomials
I. Gohberg, L. Lerer and L. Rodman PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 275-277
Hereditarily pythagorean fields, infinite Harrison-primes and sums of $2^n$th powers
Eberhard Becker PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 278-280
Uniform equivalence between Banach spaces
Israel Aharoni and Joram Lindenstrauss PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 281-283
On the lattice of faces of the $n$-cube
N. Metropolis and Gian-Carlo Rota PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 284-286
Applications of the Cauchy integral on Lipschitz curves
A. P. Calderón, C. P. Calderón, E. Fabes, M. Jodeit and N. M. Riviere PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 287-290

Book Reviews
Book reviews do not contain an abstract. You may download each review in this issue using the links below.

The wave equation on a curved space-time, by F. G. Friedlander.
Reviewer: Avron Douglis
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 222-228
Integer programming and network flows, by T. C. Hu.
Integer programming, by Harold Greenberg.
Integer programming, by R. S. Garfinkel and G. L. Nemhauser.
Mathematical programming, by T. C. Hu and Stephen M. Robinson.
Integer programming, by Harvey M. Salkin.
Integer programming: Theory, applications and computations, by Hamdy A. Taha.
Reviewer: Ellis Johnson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 228-231
Rings with involution, by I. N. Herstein.
Reviewer: C. R. Miers
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 231-234
Courant in Göttingen and New York-The story of an improbable mathematician, by Constance Reid.
Reviewer: Marshall H. Stone
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 234-241
Littlewood-Paley and multiplier theory, by R. E. Edwards and G. I. Gaudry.
Reviewers: R. R. Coifman and Guido Weiss
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 242-250
Trigonometrical sums in number theory, by I. M. Vinogradov.
Reviewer: R. G. Ayoub
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 250-256
The Selberg trace formula for $PSL\,\left( {2,\mathbf{R}} \right)$, Volume I, by Dennis A. Hejhal.
Reviewer: S. J. Patterson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 256-260
Gaussian processes, function theory, and the inverse spectral problem, by H. Dym and H. P. McKean.
Reviewer: Donald Sarason
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 260-262
Probability methods for approximations in stochastic control and for elliptic equations, by Harold J. Kushner.
Reviewer: George C. Papanicolaou
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 262-266
Estimates for the $\overline \partial$-Neumann problem, by P. C. Greiner and E. M. Stein.
Reviewer: Linda Preiss Rothschild
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 266-270
Aspects of topology, by Charles O. Christenson and William L. Voxman.
Set-theoretic topology: With emphasis on problems from the theory of coverings, zero dimensionality, and cardinal invariants, by Gregory L. Naber.
Reviewer: Mary Ellen Rudin
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 271-272