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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.

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Contents of Volume 61, Number 5
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 61, Number 5 (1955)
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955)
Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 61, Number 5 (1955)
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Nonlinear differential equations
Edmund Pinney PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 373-388
On the characters of a semisimple Lie group
Harish-Chandra PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 389-396
Topology of Lie groups and characteristic classes
Armand Borel PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 397-432
The June meeting in Vancouver
V. L. Klee Jr. PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 433-444
Research problems
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 465

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

Some basic problems of the mathematical theory of elasticity, by N. I. Muskhelishvili.
Reviewer: J. L. Synge
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 445-447
Vorlesungen über Differential- und Integralrechnung. Vol. III. Integralrechnung auf dem Gebiete mehrerer Variablen, by A. Ostrowski.
Reviewer: Angus E. Taylor
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 447-449
The elements of probability theory and some of its applications, by Harald Cramér.
Reviewer: K. L. Chung
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 449-450
Analytische Geometrie, by Gunter Pickert.
Reviewer: H. S. M. Coxeter
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 450-451
Rational fluid mechanics,, by C. Truesdell.
Reviewer: D. J. Struik
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 451-454
Algèbre locale, by P. Samuel.
Reviewer: I. S. Cohen
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 454-456
Funzioni ipergeometriche confluenti, by F. G. Tricomi.
Reviewer: A. Erdélyi
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 456-460
The language of taxonomy— An application of symbolic logic to the study of classificatory systems, by J. R. Gregg.
Reviewer: Leonard J. Savage
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 460-462
Approximations for digital computers, by C. Hastings Jr..
Reviewer: R. P. Boas, Jr.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 462-463
Leitfaden der Nomographie, by W. Meyer zur Capellen.
Nomographie, by M. W. Pentkowski.
Reviewer: J. M. Thomas
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 463
An introduction to the theory of numbers, by G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright.
Mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics, by J. von Neumann.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 463-464
Die Briefwechsel von Johann Bernoulli.
Reviewer: R. P. Boas, Jr.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1955), 464