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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.

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Contents of Volume 14, Number 1
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 14, Number 1 (1986)
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 14, Number 1 (1986)
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Classifying the finite simple groups
Daniel Gorenstein PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 1-98
Deformation spaces associated to compact hyperbolic manifolds
Dennis Johnson and John J. Millson PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 99-102
Dynamics over Teichmüller space
William A. Veech PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 103-106
Asymptotic completeness of short-range many-body systems
I. M. Sigal and A. Soffer PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 107-110
Mixed Hodge structures on homotopy groups
Richard M. Hain PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 111-114
Algebraic $K$-theory of hyperbolic manifolds
F. T. Farrell and L. E. Jones PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 115-119
New results for covering systems of residue sets
Marc A. Berger, Alexander Felzenbaum and Aviezri S. Fraenkel PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 121-125
There are asymptotically far fewer polytopes than we thought
Jacob E. Goodman and Richard Pollack PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 127-129

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

The $H$-function of one and two variables with applications, by H. M. Srivastava, K. C. Gupta and S. P. Goyal.
Reviewer: Per W. Karlsson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 131-133
The theory of topological semigroups, by J. H. Carruth, J. A. Hildebrant and R. J. Koch.
Reviewer: D. R. Brown
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 133-136
Analytic functional calculus and spectral decompositions, by Florian-Horia Vasilescu.
Reviewer: Raúl E. Curto
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 136-145
Computation with recurrence relations, by Jet Wimp.
Reviewer: Henry C. Thacher, Jr.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 145-148
Modern dimension theory, by J. Nagata.
Reviewer: A. H. Stone
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 148-152
Gravitational curvature, an introduction to Einstein's theory, by Theodore Frankel.
General relativity, an introduction to the theory of the gravitational field, by Hans Stephani.
General relativity, by Robert M. Wald.
Reviewer: Andrzej Trautman
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 152-158