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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 36, Number 4
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Longest increasing subsequences: from patience sorting to the Baik-Deift-Johansson theorem
David Aldous and Persi Diaconis PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 413-432
Merits and demerits of the orbit method
A. A. Kirillov PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 433-488

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

Character theory of finite groups, by Bertram Huppert.
Reviewer: I. M. Isaacs
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 489-492
Lie groups: Beyond an introduction, by Anthony W. Knapp.
Reviewer: David A. Vogan, Jr.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 493-498
Moduli of curves, by J. Harris and I. Morrison.
Reviewer: Ciro Ciliberto
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 499-503
Harmonic analysis real-variable methods, orthogonality, and oscillatory integrals, by E. Stein.
Reviewer: Fulvio Ricci
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 505-521
Geometry of subanalytic and semialgebraic sets, by M. Shiota.
Reviewer: Michel Coste
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 523-527
Mystic, geometer, and intuitionist. The life of L. E. J. Brouwer. Volume 1: The dawning revolution, by Dirk van Dalen.
Reviewer: I. Grattan-Guinness
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 529-532
Representations and invariants of the classical groups, by Roe Goodman and Nolan R. Wallach.
Reviewer: Jacob Towber
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 533-538
A survey of knot theory, by Akio Kawauchi.
Reviewer: Louis H. Kauffman
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 539-549