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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 2, Number 1
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 2, Number 1 (1980)
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Four-dimensional topology: an introduction
Richard Mandelbaum PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 1-159
Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 2, Number 1 (1980)
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980)
Ergodic theory of amenable group actions. I: The Rohlin lemma
Donald S. Ornstein and Benjamin Weiss PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 161-164
On nonlinear desingularization
M. S. Berger and L. E. Fraenkel PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 165-167
An analogue of the Mostow-Margulis rigidity theorems for ergodic actions of semisimple Lie groups
Robert J. Zimmer PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 168-170
A topological characterization of real algebraic varieties
Selman Akbulut and Henry C. King PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 171-173
A topological resolution theorem
Selman Akbulut and Larry Taylor PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 174-176
On irreducible maps
R. Bautista PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 177-180
Sufficiency of McMullen’s conditions for $f$-vectors of simplicial polytopes
Louis J. Billera and Carl W. Lee PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 181-185

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

An introduction to the general theory of algorithms, by Michael Machtey and Paul Young.
Reviewer: Robert P. Daley
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 187-189
Recursion-theoretic hierarchies, by Peter G. Hinman.
Reviewer: Keith J. Devlin
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 190-193
On uniformization of complex manifolds: The role of connections, by R. C. Gunning.
Reviewer: Shoshichi Kobayashi
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 193-197
Principles of algebraic geometry, by Phillip Griffiths and Joseph Harris.
Reviewer: Joseph Lipman
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 197-200
Differenzenapproximationen partieller Anfangswertaufgaben, by R. Ansorge.
Reviewer: Wolfgang Wasow
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 200-202
Elliptic systems in the plane, by W. L. Wendland.
Reviewer: Vadim Komkov
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 203-206
Introduction to modular forms, by Serge Lang.
Reviewer: Audrey Terras
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 206-214
Georg Cantor, his mathematics and philosophy of the infinite, by Joseph Warren Dauben.
Reviewer: Stanley H. Stahl
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 214-216
Integral representations of functions and imbedding theorems, by Oleg V. Besov, Valentin P. Il′in and Sergei M. Nikol′skiĭ.
Reviewer: Steven G. Krantz
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 216-222
The algebra of random variables, by M. D. Springer.
Reviewer: Samuel Kotz
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 222-225
Unitary group representations in physics, probability, and number theory, by George Mackey.
Reviewer: Karl Gustafson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 225-229
Nonlinear mappings of monotone type, by Dan Pascali and Silviu Sburlan.
Reviewer: Jeffrey R. L. Webb
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 229-232
Differentiation of real functions, by Andrew M. Bruckner.
Reviewer: Daniel Waterman
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 232-237
Elements of homotopy theory, by George W. Whitehead.
Reviewer: J. F. Adams
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 237-239
Percy Alexander MacMahon: Collected papers, Volume I, Combinatorics, by George E. Andrews.
Reviewer: John Riordan
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 239-241
Multiple-conclusion logic, by D. J. Shoesmith and T. J. Smiley.
Reviewer: Andreas Blass
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 242-246
Invariant theory, by T. A. Springer.
Reviewer: Robert B. Gardner
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 246-256
Characterizations of probability distributions, by Janos Galambos and Samuel Kotz.
Reviewer: S. G. Ghurye
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 256-259