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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 40, Number 2
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Patterns in eigenvalues: the 70th Josiah Willard Gibbs lecture
Persi Diaconis PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 155-178
The interplay between analysis and topology in some nonlinear PDE problems
Haim Brezis PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 179-201
Logical dreams
Saharon Shelah PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 203-228
Making light of mathematics
Michael Berry PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 229-237

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

The geometry and cohomology of some simple Shimura varieties, by Michael Harris and Richard Taylor.
Reviewer: Alan Roche
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 239-246
Tree lattices, by Hyman Bass and Alexander Lubotzky.
Reviewer: Lucy Lifschitz
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 247-252
Essays in the history of Lie groups and algebraic groups, by Armand Borel.
Reviewer: Brian Parshall
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 253-257
Theory of difference equations -- numerical methods and applications, 2nd ed., by V. Lakshmikantham and Donato Trigiante.
Reviewer: Walter Kelley
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 259-262