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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566049
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Book Information:

Author: H. J. Zassenhaus
Title: The theory of groups
Additional book information: 2d ed. New York, Chelsea, 1958. 10+265 pp. $6.00.

Author: L. Schwartz
Title: Théorie des distributions
Additional book information: Vol. 2. 2d ed. Actualités Scientifiques Industrielles, no. 1122. Paris, Hermann, 1959. 173 pp.

Author: L. Schwartz
Title: Étude des sommes d'exponentielles
Additional book information: 2d ed. Actualités Scientifiques Industrielles, no. 959. Paris, Hermann, 1959. 151 pp.

Author: F. Severi
Title: Il teorema di Riemann-Roch per curve, superficie e varieta, questioni collegate
Additional book information: Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, vol. 17, new series. Berlin-Göttingen-Heidelberg, Springer, 1958. 8+131 pp. DM 23.60.

Authors: J. N. Goodier and P. G. Hodge Jr.
Title: Elasticity and plasticity
Additional book information: Surveys in Applied Mathematics, vol. 1. New York, Wiley, 1958. 9+152 pp. $6.25.

Authors: E. Leimanis and N. Minorsky
Title: Dynamics and nonlinear mechanics
Additional book information: Surveys in Applied Mathematics, vol. 2. New York, Wiley, 1958. 12+206 pp. $7.75.

Authors: I. Kaplansky, E. Hewitt, M. Hall and R. Fortet
Title: Some aspects of analysis and probability
Additional book information: Surveys in Applied Mathematics, vol. 4. New York, Wiley, 1958. 11+243 pp. $9.00.

Author: U. Grenander
Title: Probability and statistics
Additional book information: The Harald Cramér volume. New York, Wiley, 1959. 434 pp. $12.50.

Authors: J. L. Synge and B. A. Griffith
Title: Principles of mechanics
Additional book information: 3d ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1959. 17+552 pp. $9.50.

Author: E. P. Wigner
Title: Group theory, and its application to the quantum mechanics of atomic spectra
Additional book information: Trans. from the German by J. J. Griffin. New York, Academic Press, 1959. 11+372 pp. $8.80.

Author: S. Bochner
Title: Lectures on Fourier integrals
Additional book information: With an author's supplement on monotonic functions, Stieltjes integrals, and harmonic analysis. Trans. by Morris Tenenbaum and Harry Pollard. Annals of Mathematics Studies, no. 42. Princeton University Press, 1959. 9+333 pp. $5.00.

Author: E. Kreyszig
Title: Differential geometry
Additional book information: Mathematical Expositions, no. 11. University of Toronto Press, 1959. 14+352 pp. $8.50.

Author: V. V. Novozhilov
Title: The theory of thin shells
Additional book information: Trans. from the Russian by P. G. Lowe, ed. by J. R. M. Radok, Groningen, Noordhoff, 1959. 16+376 pp. $9.50.

Author: U. Dini
Title: Opere
Additional book information: Vol. 4: Serie di Fourier. Vol. 5: Sviluppi in serie. Rome, Cremonese, 1959. 9+273 pp. and 296 pp. L. 3000 each, or L. 22,500 (5 vols.).

Title: The collected works of George Abram Miller
Additional book information: Vol. 5. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1959. 12+474 pp. $7.50.

Author: G. H. Hardy
Title: Ramanujan
Additional book information: New York, Chelsea, 1959. 9+236 pp. $3.95.

Review Information:

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 66 (1960), 153-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1960-10414-4