American Mathematical Society

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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Book Information:

Authors: Ronald Meester and Rahul Roy
Title: Continuum percolation
Additional book information: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996, x + 238 pp., ISBN 0-521-47504-X, $49.95$

Saunders MacLane and O. F. G. Schilling, Infinite number fields with Noether ideal theories, Amer. J. Math. 61 (1939), 771–782. MR 19, DOI 10.2307/2371335

Geoffrey Grimmett, Percolation, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989. MR 995460

Peter Hall, Introduction to the theory of coverage processes, Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics: Probability and Mathematical Statistics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1988. MR 973404, DOI 10.1016/0167-0115(88)90159-0

D. Stoyan, W. S. Kendall, and J. Mecke, Stochastic geometry and its applications, Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics: Applied Probability and Statistics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, 1987. With a foreword by D. G. Kendall. MR 895588

Review Information:

Reviewer: Mathew D. Penrose
Affiliation: University of Durham
Email: Mathew.Penrose@durham.ac.uk