American Mathematical Society

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: 3974954
Full text of review: PDF This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Mike Steel
Title: Phylogeny—discrete and random processes in evolution
Additional book information: CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 89, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Philadelphia, PA, 2016, xvi+293 pp., ISBN 978-1-611974-47-8, List Price $64.00

Charles Semple and Mike Steel, Phylogenetics, Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 24, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. MR 2060009

Tandy Warnow, Computational phylogenetics: an introduction to designing methods for phylogeny estimation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017. doi:10.1017/9781316882313

Review Information:

Reviewer: Sebastien Roch
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Email: roch@math.wisc.edu