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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 39, Number 1
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On the mathematical foundations of learning
Felipe Cucker and Steve Smale PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 1-49
Random matrix theory over finite fields
Jason Fulman PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 51-85

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

A course in model theory: An introduction to contemporary mathematical logic, by Bruno Poizat (translated by Moses Klein).
Reviewer: Anand Pillay
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 87-93
Alterations and resolution of singularities, edited by H. Hauser, J. Lipman, F. Oort and A. Quirós (eds.).
Reviewers: Fedor Bogomolov and Yuri Tschinkel
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 95-100
Cohomology of number fields, by Jürgen Neukirch, Alexander Schmidt and Kay Wingberg.
Reviewer: Fernando Q. GouvĂȘa
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 101-107
From Brownian motion to Schrodinger's equation, by Kai Lai Chung and Zhongxin Zhao.
Reviewer: Michael Cranston
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 109-111
A course in $p$-adic analysis, by Alain M. Robert.
Reviewer: Noriko Yui
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 113-119
Theory of Bergman spaces, by Haakan Hedenmalm, Boris Korenblum and Kehe Zhu.
Reviewer: Stefan Richter
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 121-127
Enumerative combinatorics, Volume 2, by Richard P. Stanley.
Reviewer: Ira M. Gessel
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 129-135
Cycles, transfers, and motivic homology theories, by Vladimir Voevodsky, Andrei Suslin and Eric M. Friedlander.
Reviewer: Charles A. Weibel
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 137-143