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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)

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Contents of Volume 29, Number 1
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“Theoretical mathematics”: toward a cultural synthesis of mathematics and theoretical physics
Arthur Jaffe and Frank Quinn PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 1-13
On the passage from local to global in number theory
B. Mazur PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 14-50
Quasipositivity as an obstruction to sliceness
Lee Rudolph PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 51-59
A counterexample to Borsuk’s conjecture
Jeff Kahn and Gil Kalai PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 60-62
The genus-minimizing property of algebraic curves
P. B. Kronheimer PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 63-69
Average case complexity of linear multivariate problems
H. Woźniakowski PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 70-76
Adding handles to the helicoid
David Hoffman, Fu Sheng Wei and Hermann Karcher PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 77-84
Absence of Cantor spectrum for a class of Schrödinger operators
Norbert Riedel PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 85-87
Topological invariance of intersection lattices of arrangements in $\mathbf {CP}^2$
Tan Jiang and Stephen S.-T. Yau PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 88-93
A counterexample to the rigidity conjecture for rings
Raymond C. Heitmann PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 94-97

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

Submodular functions and optimization theory, by S. Fujishige.
Reviewer: Richard P. McLean and William W. Sharkey
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 98-104
Finite soluble groups, by Klaus Doerk and Trevor Hawkes.
Reviewer: Cheryl E. Praeger
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 104-106
Topics in non-commutative geometry, by Yuri I. Manin.
Reviewer: Ivan Penkov
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 106-111
Algorithmic algebraic number theory, by M. Pohst and H. Zassenhaus.
Reviewer: René Schoof
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 111-113
The cohomology of groups, by Leonard Evens.
Reviewer: Richard G. Swan
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 113-116
Mathematical analysis and numerical methods for science and technology, Volume 5. Evolution Problems 1, by translated from French by Alan Craig Robert Dautray and Jacques-Louis Lions.
Reviewer: Karen A. Ames
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 117-120
Topics in varieties of group representations, by Samuel M. Vovsi.
Reviewer: Peter M. Neumann
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 120-123
Geometry of reflecting rays and inverse problems, by V. M. Petkov and L. N. Stoyanov.
Reviewer: J. Sj"ostrand
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 124-125
Ergodic theorems for group actions, by Arkady Tempelman.
Reviewer: H. O. Georgii
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 126-130
Combinatorics of train tracks, by R. C. Penner with J. L. Harer.
Reviewer: W. Abikoff
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 130-136
The general theory of integration, by Ralph Henstock.
Reviewer: Robert G. Bartle
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 136-139
Multidimensional inverse scattering problems, by Alexander G. Ramm.
Reviewer: Reese T. Prosser
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 139-144
Symmetries and Laplacians: Introduction to harmonic analysis, group representations and applications, by David Gurarie.
Reviewer: Audrey Terras
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 144-149