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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: 1567456
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Authors: Nathaniel F. G. Martin and James W. England
Title: Mathematical theory of entropy
Additional book information: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 12, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Mass., 1981, xxi + 257 pp., $29.50. ISBN 0-2011-3511-6.

Author: William Parry
Title: Topics in ergodic theory
Additional book information: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, vol. 75, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, England, 1981, x + 110 pp., $23.95. ISBN 0-5213-3986-3.

Author: Peter Walters
Title: An introduction to ergodic theory
Additional book information: Graduate Texts in Math., vol. 79, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1982, ix + 250 pp., $28.00. ISBN 0-3879-0599-5.

Review Information:

Reviewer: Paul Shields
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1983), 259-265
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15179-0