Contents of Volume 41, Number 3

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René Thom: “Mathématicien et apprenti philosophe"

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 273-274
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Application of hyperbolic dynamics to physics: Some problems and conjectures

David Ruelle.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 275-278
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Shannon sampling and function reconstruction from point values

Steve Smale and Ding-Xuan Zhou.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 279-305
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Perturbations, deformations, and variations (and “near-misses") in geometry, physics, and number theory

B. Mazur.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 307-336
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The impact of Thom’s cobordism theory

Michael Atiyah.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 337-340
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René Thom’s work on geometric homology and bordism

Dennis Sullivan.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 341-350
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Book Reviews

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Galois theory of linear differential equations, by Marius van der Put and Michael Singer.

Reviewer: Juan J. Morales-Ruiz
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 351-356
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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
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 357-367
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Homotopy theoretic methods in group cohomology, by W. G. Dwyer and H.-W. Henn.

Reviewer: J. P. C. Greenlees
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 369-376
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Trigonometric series, Vols. I, II, by Antoni Zygmund.

Reviewer: Jean-Pierre Kahane
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 377-390
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Finite structures with few types, by Gregory Cherlin and Ehud Hrushovki.

Reviewer: John T. Baldwin
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 391-394
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Discrete convex analysis, by Kazuo Murota.

Reviewer: Alexander Barvinok
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 395-400
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Hankel operators and their applications, by Vladimir V. Peller.

Reviewer: Donald Sarason
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 401-407
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