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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)

The 2020 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.84.

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567115
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: J. L. Bell
Title: Boolean-valued models and independence proofs in set theory
Additional book information: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1977, xviii + 124 pp., $14.50.

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  • Handbook of mathematical logic, Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics, vol. 90, North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1977. With the cooperation of H. J. Keisler, K. Kunen, Y. N. Moschovakis and A. S. Troelstra. MR 457132
  • Thomas J. Jech, Lectures in set theory, with particular emphasis on the method of forcing, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 217, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1971. MR 0321738
  • J. R. Shoenfield, Unramified forcing, Axiomatic Set Theory (Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., Vol. XIII, Part I, Univ. California, Los Angeles, Calif., 1967) Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I., 1971, pp. 357–381. MR 0280359

  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Paul C. Eklof
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 221-223
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14561-0