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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: 1565710
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: C. Carathéodory
Title: Theory of functions of a complex variable
Additional book information: Vol. 2, Trans. by F. Steinhardt. New York, Chelsea, 1954. 220 pp.

Author: O. Taussky
Title: Contributions to the solution of systems of linear equations and the determination of eigenvalues
Additional book information: (National Bureau of Standards Applied Mathematics Series, vol. 39.) Washington, Government Printing Office, 1954. 4+139 pp. $2.00.

Author: G. Goudet
Title: Les fonctions de Bessel et leurs applications en physique
Additional book information: 2d ed. Paris, Masson, 1954. 4+90 pp. 600 fr.

Author: A. Wald
Title: Selected papers in statistics and probability
Additional book information: Ed. for the Institute of Mathematical Statistics by T. W. Anderson and others. 10+702 pp. $8.00.

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  • Paul R. Halmos, Introduction to Hilbert space and the theory of spectral multiplicity, AMS Chelsea Publishing, Providence, RI, 1998. Reprint of the second (1957) edition. MR 1653399

  • Review Information:

    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 372
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1955-09966-X