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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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Contents of Volume 1, Number 5
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 1, Number 5 (1979)
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 1, Number 5 (1979)
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979)
Singularities and group actions
Peter Orlik PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 703-720
Representations of finite groups of Lie type
Charles W. Curtis PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 721-757
On the difference between consecutive primes
D. R. Heath-Brown and H. Iwaniec PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 758-760
Stochastic integrators
Klaus Bichteler PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 761-765
Brauer groups of rational function fields
Burton Fein, Murray Schacher and Jack Sonn PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 766-768
Displacement ranks of a matrix
T. Kailath, S.-Y. Kung and M. Morf PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 769-773
Two reductions of the Poincaré conjecture
G. A. Swarup PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 774-777
The queer differential equations for adiabatic compression of plasma
Gudmundur Vigfússon PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 778-781

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

Symplectic groups, by O. T. O'Meara.
Reviewer: D. G. James
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 782-784
Fundamentals of decision analysis, by Irving H. LaValle.
Reviewer: Ronald A. Howard
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 784-787
Groupes et anneaux réticulés, by Alain Bigard, Klaus Keimel and Samuel Wolfenstein.
Reviewer: Laszlo Fuchs
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 787-789
General lattice theory, by George Grätzer.
Reviewer: Garrett Birkhoff
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 789-792
Crystallographic groups of four-dimensional space, by Harold Brown, Rolf Bülow, Joachim Neubüser, Hans Wondratschek and Hans Zassenhaus.
Reviewer: H. S. M. Coxeter
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 792-794
Spectral theory of linear operators, by H. R. Dowson.
Reviewer: Earl R. Berkson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 795-799
Bessel polynomials, by Emil Grosswald.
Reviewer: R. P. Boas
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 799-800
The finite element method for elliptic problems, by Philippe G. Ciarlet.
Reviewer: George J. Fix
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 800-802
Non-Archimedean functional analysis, by A. C. M. Van Rooij.
Reviewer: M .H. Taibleson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 802-804
Quasi-ideals in rings and semigroups, by Ottó Steinfeld.
Reviewer: A. H. Clifford
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 804-806