Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Contents of Volume 63, Number 2
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 63, Number 2 (1957)
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 63, Number 2 (1957)
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Mathematics and the future of science
Marshall H. Stone PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1957), 61-76
Witold Hurewicz, In memoriam
Solomon Lefschetz PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1957), 77-82
The Annual meeting in Rochester
R. D. Schafer PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1957), 83-150
Research problems
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1957), 165

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

The geometry of geodesics, by Herbert Busemann.
Reviewer: William M. Boothby
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1957), 151-153
Structure of a group and the structure of its lattice of subgroups, by Michio Suzuki.
Reviewer: Philip M. Whitman
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1957), 153-154
The world of mathematics, by James R. Newman.
Reviewer: R. P. Boas, Jr.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1957), 154-155
Logic, semantics, metamathematics, by Alfred Tarski.
Reviewer: Paul R. Halmos
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1957), 155-156
La théorie des fonctions de Bessel, exposée en vue de ses applications à la physique mathématique, by Gérard Petiau.
Reviewer: F. Oberhettinger
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1957), 156-157
Symposium on Monte Carlo methods, by H. A. Meyer.
Reviewer: Wolfgang Wasow
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1957), 157-160
Automata studies, by C. E. Shannon and J. McCarthy.
Reviewer: Arthur W. Burks
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1957), 160-163
Theory of approximation, by N. I. Achieser.
Foundations of the theory of probability, by A. N. Kolmogorov.
Vol. II. The theory of groups., by A. G. Kurosh.
Vol. III Contributions to the theory of nonlinear oscillations., by S. Lefschetz.
Proceedings of the conference on differential equations, by J. B. Diaz and L. E. Payne.
Opere., by L. Bianchi.
Opere. Vol. I: Note e memorie, by G. Ricci-Curbastro.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1957), 163-164