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Contents of Volume 26, Number 1
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Editors’ remarks: “Some basic information on information-based complexity theory” [Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 26 (1992), no. 1, 3–27; MR1102755 (94e:68077a)] by B. N. Parlett and “Perspectives on information-based complexity” [Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 26 (1992), no. 1, 29–52; MR1102756 (94e:68077b)] by J. F. Traub and H. Woźniakowski
Morris W. Hirsch and Richard S. Palais PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 1-2
Some basic information on information-based complexity theory
Beresford N. Parlett PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 3-27
Perspectives on information-based complexity
J. F. Traub and H. Woźniakowski PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 29-52
Semi-linear wave equations
Michael Struwe PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 53-85
$\Lambda$-trees and their applications
John W. Morgan PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 87-112
Lifting of cohomology and unobstructedness of certain holomorphic maps
Ziv Ran PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 113-117
A steepest descent method for oscillatory Riemann-Hilbert problems
P. Deift and X. Zhou PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 119-123
Nonunique tangent maps at isolated singularities of harmonic maps
Brian White PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 125-129
Semistability of amalgamated products, HNN-extensions, and all one-relator groups
Michael L. Mihalik and Steven T. Tschantz PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 131-135
Some nonanalytic-hypoelliptic sums of squares of vector fields
Michael Christ PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 137-140
Pleating coordinates for the Teichmüller space of a punctured torus
Linda Keen and Caroline Series PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 141-146

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

Weak convergence methods for nonlinear partial differential equations, by Lawrence C. Evans.
Reviewers: Michel Chipot and David Kinderlehrer
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 147-148
Finsler geometry and applications, by Aurel Bejancu.
Reviewer: Hanno Rund
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 148-151
Unbounded operator algebras and representation theory, by Konrad Schm\"udgen.
Reviewer: Palle Jorgensen
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 152-153
Topics in Nevanlinna theory, by Serge Lang and William Cherry.
Reviewer: Paul Vojta
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 153-157
Set-valued analysis, by Jean-Pierre Aubin and Helene Frankowska.
Reviewer: Jonathan Borwein
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 157-160
Large deviation techniques in decision, simulation, and estimation, by James A. Bucklew.
Reviewer: Richard S. Ellis
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 160-171
Handbook of differential equations, by Daniel Zwillinger.
Reviewer: Ray Redheffer
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 171-175
Retarded dynamical systems: stability and characteristic functions, by G. St\'ep\'an.
Reviewer: Kenneth L. Cooke
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 175-179
Classification theories of polarized varieties, by Takao Fujita.
Reviewer: Andrew J. Sommese
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 179-182
The geometry and physics of knots, by Michael Atiyah.
Reviewer: Raoul Bott
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 182-188
Variational principles of topology. Multidimensional minimal surface theory, by Anatoli\u \i \ T. Fomenko.
Reviewer: Fred Almgren
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 188-192
Induced modules over group algebras, by Gregory Karpilovsky.
Reviewer: Gerald Cliff
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1992), 193-195