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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)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566011
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: L. J. Mordell
Title: Reflections of a mathematician
Additional book information: Montreal, Canadian Mathematical Congress, 1959. 7+50 pp.

Authors: E. Nagel and J. R. Newman
Title: Gödel's proof
Additional book information: New York, New York University Press, 1958. 9+118 pp. $1.75 paper, $2.95 cloth.

Authors: H. S. Carslaw and J. C. Jaeger
Title: Conduction of heat in solids
Additional book information: 2d ed. New York, Oxford University Press, 1959. 10+510 pp. $13.45.

Author: W. Pauli
Title: Theory of relativity
Additional book information: Trans. from the German by G. Field, with supplementary notes by the author. New York, Pergamon, 1958. 14+241 pp. $6.00.

Authors: Glenn James and R. C. James
Title: Mathematics dictionary
Additional book information: Princeton, Van Nostrand, 1959. 546 pp. $15.00.

Title: Symposium internacional de topologia algebraica
Additional book information: National University of Mexico and UNESCO, 1958. 12+334 pp.

Author: S. Lefschetz
Title: vol. 4 Contributions to the theory of nonlinear oscillations,
Additional book information: Annals of Mathematics Studies, no. 41. Princeton University Press, 1958. 9+211 pp. $3.75.

Title: Numerische Mathematik.
Additional book information: Berlin-Göttingen-Heidelberg, Springer, January, 1959. 60 pp. DM 16.80.

Review Information:

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 65 (1959), 308-309
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1959-10332-3