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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Contents of Volume 33, Number 3
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Cayley-Bacharach theorems and conjectures
David Eisenbud, Mark Green and Joe Harris PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 295-324
Erratum to “How many zeros of a random polynomial are real?”
Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 325
Symplectic reduction and Riemann-Roch formulas for multiplicities
Reyer Sjamaar PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 327-338

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

Riemannian geometry: A modern introduction, by Isaac Chavel.
Reviewer: Jerry L. Kazdan
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 339-344
Basic ergodic theory, by M. G. Nadkarni.
Reviewer: Jack Feldman
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 345-346
Lie algebras with triangular decompositions, by Robert V. Moody and Arturo Pianzola.
Reviewer: George B. Seligman
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 347-349
Introduction to mechanics and symmetry: A basic exposition of classical mechanical systems, by Jerrold E. Marsden and Tudor S. Ratiu.
Reviewer: Mark S. Ashbaugh
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 351-353
The harmonic analysis of probability measures on hypergroups, by Walter R. Bloom and Herbert Heyer.
Reviewer: Alan L. Schwartz
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 355-362
Lattice methods for multiple integration, by Ian H. Sloan and Stephen Joe.
Reviewer: Ronald Cools
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 363-366
Commutative algebra with a view toward algebraic geometry, by David Eisenbud.
Reviewer: Mark Green
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 367-370
Schur algebras and representation theory, by Stuart Martin.
Reviewer: Brian Parshall
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 371-375
Elements of applied bifurcation theory, by Yuri A. Kuznetsov.
Reviewer: David K. Arrowsmith
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 377-380
The technique of pseudodifferential operators, by H. O. Cordes.
Pseudodifferential analysis on symmetric cones, by A. Unterberger and H. Upmeier.
Reviewer: Alexander Dynin
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 381-384
$J$-holomorphic curves and quantum cohomology, by Dusa McDuff and Dietmar Salamon.
Reviewer: François Lalonde
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 385-394
Geometric group theory, Vol. 2: Asymptotic invariants of infinite groups, by M. Gromov.
Reviewer: Domingo Toledo
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 395-398
Combinatorial rigidity, by Jack Graver, Brigitte Servatius and Herman Servatius.
Reviewer: Robert Connelly
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 399-401
Applied functional analysis (Applications to mathematical physics), by Eberhard Zeidler.
Reviewer: Erwin Kreyszig
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 403-407
Cardinal arithmetic, by Saharon Shelah.
Reviewer: James E. Baumgartner
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 409-411