Contents of Volume 48, Number 2

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How can we construct abelian Galois extensions of basic number fields?

Barry Mazur.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 155-209
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Recent progress on the quantum unique ergodicity conjecture

Peter Sarnak.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 211-228
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Crystals, proteins, stability and isoperimetry

Misha Gromov.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 229-257
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The evolution of geometric structures on 3-manifolds

Curtis T. McMullen.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 259-274
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Mathematical Perspectives

About the cover: Isaac Newton, Fatio de Duillier, and Alchemy

Gerald L. Alexanderson.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 275-279
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Selections Reprinted from "Mathematical Reviews"

Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 281-284
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Book Reviews

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Outer billiards on kites, by Richard Evan Schwartz.

Reviewer: Serge Tabachnikov
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 285-291
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Fundamentals of stochastic filtering, by Alan Bain and Dan Crisan.

Reviewer: Pierre Del Moral
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 293-305
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Classifying spaces of sporadic groups, by David J. Benson and Stephen D. Smith.

Reviewer: Bob Oliver
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 307-313
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Groups of prime power order. Vol. 1 (with a foreword by Zvonimir Janko), by Yakov Berkovich.

Groups of prime power order. Vol. 2, by Yakov Berkovich and Zvonimir Janko.

Reviewer: C. R. Leedham-Green
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 315-323
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