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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 28, Number 1
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Homogeneous functions on light cones: the infinitesimal structure of some degenerate principal series representations
Roger E. Howe and Eng-Chye Tan PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 1-74
Factorizations of invertible operators and $K$-theory of $C^*$-algebras
Shuang Zhang PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 75-83
Linkless embeddings of graphs in $3$-space
Neil Robertson, P. D. Seymour and Robin Thomas PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 84-89
A new result for the porous medium equation derived from the Ricci flow
Lang-Fang Wu PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 90-94
Representations and $K$-theory of discrete groups
Alejandro Adem PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 95-98
Möbius invariance of knot energy
Steve Bryson, Michael H. Freedman, Zheng-Xu He and Zhenghan Wang PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 99-103
Relative $K$-cycles and elliptic boundary conditions
Guihua Gong PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 104-108
Singularities of the Radon transform
A. G. Ramm and A. I. Zaslavsky PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 109-115
Best uniform rational approximation of $x^\alpha$ on $[0,1]$
Herbert Stahl PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 116-122

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

Finiteness theorems for limit cycles, by Yu. S. Il\cprime yashenko.
Reviewer: Carmen Chicone
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 123-130
Quantum physics, relativity and complex spacetime, by Gerald Kaiser.
Reviewer: Robert Hermann
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 130-132
Operator algebras in dynamical systems, by Sh\^oichir\^o Sakai.
Reviewer: Richard V. Kadison
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 133-136
Spectral and scattering theory for wave propagation in perturbed stratified media, by Ricardo Weder.
Reviewer: Calvin H. Wilcox
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 137-141
Almost free modules. Set-theoretic methods, by Paul C. Eklof and Alan H. Mekler.
Reviewer: Laszlo Fuchs
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 141-144
Andr\'e Weil: The apprenticeship of a mathematician, by Andr\'e Weil.
Reviewer: Saunders Mac Lane
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 144-147
Cycles and bridges in graphs, by Heinz-J\"urgen Voss.
Reviewer: Cecil Rousseau
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 147-148
Variational methods (Applications to nonlinear PDE and Hamiltonian systems), by Michael Struwe.
Reviewer: J"urgen Jost
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 149-153
Differential topology and quantum field theory, by Charles Nash.
Reviewer: Daniel S. Freed
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 153-157
Around Burnside, by A.\ I.\ Kostrikin.
The restricted Burnside problem, by Michael Vaughan-Lee.
Reviewers: M. F. Newman and G. E. Wall
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 157-161
Nonlinear partial differential equations of second order, by Guangchang Dong.
Reviewer: Gary M. Lieberman
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 161-164
Introduction to asymmetric solitary waves, by Juri Engelbrecht.
Reviewer: John Albert
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 164-168
The linear complementarity problem, by J.~S. Pang R.~W. Cottle, and R.~E. Stone.
Reviewer: M. C. Ferris
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 169-175
Non-abelian harmonic analysis. Applications of $SL(2, \mathbb{R})$, by Roger Howe and Eng-Chye Tan.
Reviewer: David A. Vogan, Jr.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 176-182
Classical recursion theory, by P. Odifreddi.
Reviewer: J. R. Shoenfield
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 182-183
The geometry of supermanifolds, by Ugo Bruzzo Claudio Bartocci, and Daniel Hern\'andez-Ruip\'erez.
Reviewer: Alice Rogers
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 184-189
Banach lattices, by Peter Meyer-Nieberg.
Reviewer: C. D. Aliprantis
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 190-194
Mathematical models in electrical circuitsrm: theory and applications, by C. A. Marinov and P. Neittaanmaki.
Reviewer: A. H. Zemanian
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 194-198
The theory of subnormal operators, by John Conway.
Reviewer: T. W. Gamelin
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 199-202
Combinatorial matrix theory, by Richard A. Brualdi and Herbert J. Ryser.
Reviewer: W. T. Tutte
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 202-204
Error analysis in numerical processes, by Solomon G. Mikhlin.
Reviewer: F. Stummel
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 204-206
Two-dimensional geometric variational problems, by J\"urgen Jost.
Reviewer: Friedrich Sauvigny
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 206-209
Additive number theory of polynomials over a finite field, by Gove W. Effinger and David R. Hayes.
Reviewer: R. C. Vaughan
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 209-212
ERRATUM, by I. Rivin C. D. Hodgson, and W. D. Smith.
Reviewers: Craig Hodgson and Wayne Smith
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 213-213