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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: 1567227
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Robert L. Long
Title: Algebraic number theory
Additional book information: Pure and Applied Mathematics, Marcel Dekker, New York and Basel, 1977, ix + 192 pp., $18.50.

Author: Harvey Cohn
Title: A classical invitation to algebraic numbers and class fields
Additional book information: with two appendices by Olga Taussky, Universitext, Springer-Verlag, New York and Berlin, 1978, xvi + 328 pp.,$14.80.

Author: Daniel A. Marcus
Title: Number fields
Additional book information: Universitext, Springer-Verlag, New York and Berlin, 1977, viii + 279 pp.,$14.00.

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

  • Harold M. Edwards, Fermat’s last theorem, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 50, Springer-Verlag, New York-Berlin, 1977. A genetic introduction to algebraic number theory. MR 616635
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    L. Kronecker, Zur Geschichte des Reciprocitätsgesetztes, Monat. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1875, pp. 267-274 (Werke, vol. 2, 1-10).

    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Harold Edwards
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 321-327
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1980-14750-3