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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: 1567190
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: C. von Westenholz
Title: Differential forms in mathematical physics
Additional book information: Studies in Mathematics and its Applications 3, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1978, xv + 487 pp., $62.25.

References [Enhancements On Off] (What's this?)

  • Harley Flanders, Differential forms with applications to the physical sciences, Academic Press, New York-London, 1963. MR 0162198
  • Claude Godbillon, Géométrie différentielle et mécanique analytique, Hermann, Paris, 1969 (French). MR 0242081
  • Robert Hermann, Differential geometry and the calculus of variations, Mathematics in Science and Engineering, Vol. 49, Academic Press, New York-London, 1968. MR 0233313

  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Harley Flanders
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 944-949
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14697-4