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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)

The 2020 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.84.

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 3925370
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Terence Tao
Title: Expansion in finite simple groups of Lie type
Additional book information: Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 164, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2015, xiv+303 pp., ISBN 978-1-4704-2196-0

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Alexander Lubotzky
    Affiliation: Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    Email: alex.lubotzky@mail.huji.ac.il
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 56 (2019), 361-366
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1610
    Published electronically: January 25, 2018
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2018 American Mathematical Society