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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 41, Number 3
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René Thom: “Mathématicien et apprenti philosophe"
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 273-274
Application of hyperbolic dynamics to physics: Some problems and conjectures
David Ruelle PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 275-278
Shannon sampling and function reconstruction from point values
Steve Smale and Ding-Xuan Zhou PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 279-305
Perturbations, deformations, and variations (and “near-misses") in geometry, physics, and number theory
B. Mazur PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 307-336
The impact of Thom’s cobordism theory
Michael Atiyah PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 337-340
René Thom’s work on geometric homology and bordism
Dennis Sullivan PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 341-350

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

Galois theory of linear differential equations, by Marius van der Put and Michael Singer.
Reviewer: Juan J. Morales-Ruiz
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 351-356
RSA and Public-Key Cryptography, by Richard Mollin.
Introduction to Cryptography, by Hans Delfs and Helmut Knebl.
Cryptography: Theory and Practice, by Douglas Stinson.
Algebraic Aspects of Cryptography, by Neal Koblitz.
Elliptic Curves: Number Theory and Cryptography, by Lawrence Washington.
Elliptic Curves in Cryptography, by Ian Blake, Gadiel Seroussi and Nigel Smart.
Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness, by Oded Goldreich.
Foundations of Cryptography: Basic Tools, by Oded Goldreich.
The Design of Rijndael: AES --- the Advanced Encryption Standard, by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen.
Handbook of Applied Cryptography, by Alfred Menezes, Paul van Oorschot and Scott Vanstone.
Reviewer: Susan Landau
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 357-367
Homotopy theoretic methods in group cohomology, by W. G. Dwyer and H.-W. Henn.
Reviewer: J. P. C. Greenlees
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 369-376
Trigonometric series, Vols. I, II, by Antoni Zygmund.
Reviewer: Jean-Pierre Kahane
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 377-390
Finite structures with few types, by Gregory Cherlin and Ehud Hrushovki.
Reviewer: John T. Baldwin
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 391-394
Discrete convex analysis, by Kazuo Murota.
Reviewer: Alexander Barvinok
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 395-400
Hankel operators and their applications, by Vladimir V. Peller.
Reviewer: Donald Sarason
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 401-407