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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Contents of Volume 62, Number 1
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 62, Number 1 (1956)
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956)
Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 62, Number 1 (1956)
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956)
The October meeting in College Park
R. D. Schafer PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 1-12
The November meeting in Los Angeles
V. L. Klee Jr. PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 13-23
The November meeting in Knoxville
J. H. Roberts PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 24-36
The November meeting in Milwaukee
J. W. T. Youngs PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 37-49
Research problems
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 76-77
Council and board of trustees 1955
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 78

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

Limit distributions for sums of independent random variables, by B. V. Gnedenko and A. N. Kolmogorov.
Reviewer: Donald A. Darling
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 50-52
Methods of theoretical physics, by P. M. Morse and H. Feshbach.
Reviewer: Mark Kac
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 52-54
Primzahlen, by E. Trost.
Reviewer: Lowell Schoenfeld
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 54-57
Entire functions, by R. P. Boas Jr..
Reviewer: J. Korevaar
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 57-62
Probability theory. Foundations. Random sequences, by M. Loève.
Reviewer: J. L. Doob
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 62-65
General topology, by J. L. Kelley.
Reviewer: Edwin Hewitt
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 65-68
Theory of functions of a real variable, by I. P. Natanson.
Reviewer: M. M. Day
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 68-69
The construction and study of certain important algebras, by C. Chevalley.
Reviewer: J. Dieudonné
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 69-71
Konstruktive Funktionentheorie, by I. P. Natanson.
Reviewer: R. P. Boas, Jr.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 71-73
An introduction to stochastic processes with special reference to methods and applications, by M. S. Bartlett.
Reviewer: Donald A. Darling
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 73-74
Allgemeine Theorie der algebraischen Zahlen, by Ph. Furtwängler.
Reviewer: G. Whaples
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 73
Numerische Behandlung von Differentialgleichungen, by L. Collatz.
Reviewer: W. E. Milne
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 74
Curso de análisis matemático., by C. de Losada y Puga.
Reviewer: R. P. Boas, Jr.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 74
Opere. Vol. 3, Sistemi tripli ortogonali, by L. Bianchi.
Collected works, by G. A. Miller.
Tables of the cumulative binomial probability distribution.
The real projective plane, by H. S. M. Coxeter.
Science awakening, by B. L. van der Waerden.
Lectures on functions of a complex variable, by W. Kaplan.
Second colloque sur les équations aux dérivées partielles.
The Computer Director, June.
Cinquant' anni di relatività,, by M. Pantaleo.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1956), 74-76