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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: 1565385
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Title: Tables of the error function and of its first twenty derivatives
Additional book information: By the Staff of the Computation Laboratory. Harvard University Press, 1952. 28+276 pp. -8.00.

Author: H. E. Salzer
Title: Tables of $\Gamma \left( {n + 1/2} \right)$ for the first thousand values of $n$
Additional book information: (National Bureau of Standards, Applied Mathematics Series, no. 16.) Washington, United States Government Printing Office, 1951. 6+10 pp. 15 cents.

Author: John Todd
Title: Table of arctangents of rational numbers
Additional book information: (National Bureau of Standards, Applied Mathematics Series, no. 11.) Washington, United States Government Printing Office, 1951. 11+105 pp. $1.50.

Title: Proceedings of the Second Canadian Mathematical Congress, Vancouver,
Additional book information: University of Toronto Press, 1951. 22+259 pp. $6.00.

Review Information:

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (1952), 279-280
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1952-09613-0