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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 50, Number 1
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Langlands Program, trace formulas, and their geometrization
Edward Frenkel PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 1-55
The Cobordism hypothesis
Daniel S. Freed PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 57-92
The structure theory of set addition revisited
Tom Sanders PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 93-127

Mathematical Perspectives


A 250-year argument: Belief, behavior, and the bootstrap
Bradley Efron PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 129-146
About the cover: Maria Gaëtana Agnesi—a divided life
Gerald L. Alexanderson PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 147-152
Selections Reprinted from Mathematical Reviews
Review information PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 153-160

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

The Noether theorems. Invariance and conservation laws in the twentieth century, by revised and augmented from the 2006 French edition by Bertram E. Schwarzbach Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach, translated.
Reviewer: Peter J. Olver
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 161-167
The stability of matter in quantum mechanics, by Elliott H. Lieb and Robert Seiringer.
Reviewer: Jan Philip Solovej
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 169-174
Zariski geometries. Geometry from the logician’s point of view, by Boris Zilber.
Reviewer: Anand Pillay
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 175-180
The dynamical Yang–Baxter equation, representation theory, and quantum integrable systems, by Pavel Etingof and Frédéric Latour.
Reviewer: Giovanni Felder
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 181-186