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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: 1567999
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Hosam M. Mahmoud
Title: Evolution of random search trees
Additional book information: Wiley, New York, 1992, 324 pp., US$54.95. ISBN 0-471-53228-2.

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  • Franco P. Preparata and Michael Ian Shamos, Computational geometry, Texts and Monographs in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1985. An introduction. MR 805539, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4612-1098-6
  • Jeffrey Scott Vitter and Philippe Flajolet, Average-case analysis of algorithms and data structures, Handbook of theoretical computer science, Vol. A, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1990, pp. 431–524. MR 1127175
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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: David Aldous
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 313-315
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00314-2