Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Contents of Volume 79, Number 1
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 79, Number 1 (1973): PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973)

Functions of several noncommuting variables: Joseph L. Taylor PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 1-34

Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 79, Number 1 (1973): PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973)

Some inequalities for uniformly bounded dependent variables: David Freedman PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 40-44

Manifolds as open books: H. E. Winkelnkemper PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 45-51

Compact Hilbert cube manifolds and the invariance of Whitehead torsion: T. A. Chapman PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 52-56

Trace class, widths and the finite approximation property in Banach space: R. A. Goldstein and R. Saeks PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 57-60

Phragmen-Lindelof theorems for some nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations: Joseph J. Roseman PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 61-63

Zeros of successive derivatives of entire functions: R. P. Boas Jr. and A. R. Reddy PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 64-65

Radical behavior and the Wedderburn family: F. J. Flanigan PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 66-70

Submersions from spheres: R. Escobales Jr. PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 71-74

A homotopy classification of 2-complexes with finite cyclic fundamental group: Michael N. Dyer and Allan J. Sieradski PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 75-77

Real closures of semilocal rings, and extension of real places: Manfred Knebusch PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 78-81

Groups of invertible elements of Banach algebras: Yvonne Yuen PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 82-84

The Morse lemma on arbitrary Banach spaces: A. J. Tromba PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 85-86

Regular ${\mathbf {O}}\left ( n \right )$-manifolds, suspension of knots, and knot periodicity: Glen E. Bredon PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 87-91

Unitary Whitehead group of cyclic groups: Man Keung Siu PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 92-95

Function theoretic methods for higher order, elliptic equations in three independent variables: R. P. Gilbert and D. Kukral PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 96-99

Curvature measures for piecewise linear manifolds: F. J. Flaherty PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 100-102

A characterization of growth in locally compact groups: J. W. Jenkins PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 103-106

The cohomology of restrictions of the $\bar \partial$ complex: Ricardo Nirenberg PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 107-109

On minimal immersions of $S^2$ in $S^{2m}$: Joao Lucas Marques Barbosa PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 110-114

A collapse result for the Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence: Hans J. Munkholm PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 115-118

Pontrjagin classes of PL sheaves: Howard Osborn PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 119-121

Compactness in locally compact groups: Ralph Hughes PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 122-123

Some variational problems on certain Sobolev spaces and perfect splines: Samuel Karlin PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 124-128

Paley-Wiener theorems and surjectivity of invariant differential operators on symmetric spaces and Lie groups: Sigurdur Helgason PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 129-132

Stability implies normal and disc bundles: Ronald J. Stern PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 133-135

Invariant subspaces of $L^\infty$ and $H^\infty$: L. A. Rubel and A. L. Shields PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 136-137

Relatively invariant systems and the spectral mapping theorem: Robin Harte PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 138-142

Spaces homeomorphic to $\left ( {2^\alpha } \right )_\alpha$: H. H. Hung and S. Negrepontis PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 143-146

Differentiable actions of $S^1$ and $S^3$ on homotopy spheres: Kai Wang PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 147-149

Totally geodesic fibre maps: Mu-Chou Liu PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 150-151

Injective modules and classical localization in Noetherian rings: Arun Vinayak Jategaonkar PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 152-157

Spaces of equivariant self-equivalences of spheres: J. C. Becker and R. E. Schultz PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 158-162

On holomorphic families of pointed Riemann surfaces: Clifford J. Earle PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 163-166

Combinatorial symmetries of the $m$-disc. I: Lowell Jones PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 167-169

Dissections of a simplex: G. L. Alexanderson and John E. Wetzel PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 170-171

The representation of lattices by modules: George Hutchinson PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 172-176

An inversion formula involving partitions: Peter Doubilet PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 177-179

Analytical circle group actions on compact complex manifolds: Shaw Mong PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 180-181

Positive harmonic functions and biharmonic degeneracy: Leo Sario and Cecilia Wang PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 182-187

Equivariant singular homology and cohomology: Sören Illman PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 188-192

Higher $K$-theory for regular schemes: S. M. Gersten PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 193-196

Orbits of families of vector fields and integrability of systems with singularities: Hector J. Sussmann PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 197-199

A class of $\pi _c$ groups closed under cyclic amalgamations: Benny Evans PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 200-201

Periodic and homogeneous states on a von Neumann algebra. I: Masamichi Takesaki PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 202-206

On operator-valued stochastic integrals: Hui-Hsiung Kuo PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 207-210

Free finite group actions on $S^3$: Ronnie Lee and Charles Thomas PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 211-215

Finitely generated submodules of differentiable functions. II: B. Roth PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 216-218

Some results on the center of a ring with polynomial identity: Louis Rowen PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 219-223

The radius of convexity for a special class of meromorphic functions: Dorothy Browne Shaffer PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 224-225

Council and board of trustees—1972: PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 226

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

Lattice theory, by Garrett Birkhoff.
Lattice theory: First concepts and distributive lattices, by George Grätzer.: Reviewer: Mary Katherine Bennett; Review information PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 35-39