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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)

The 2020 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.84.

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566637
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Thomas Hawkins
Title: Lebesgue's Theory of Integration
Additional book information: University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1970. xv + 227 pp.

Author: Michael J. Crowe
Title: A History of Vector Analysis
Additional book information: University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, 1967. xvii + 270 pp.

Author: I. Grattan-Guinness
Title: The Development of the Foundations of Mathematical Analysis from Euler to Riemann
Additional book information: MIT Press, Cambridge, 1970. xiii + 186 pp.

Author: Hans Wussing
Title: Die Genesis des abstrakten Gruppenbegriffes
Additional book information: VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1969. 258 pp.

Review Information:

Reviewer: William C. Waterhouse
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 78 (1972), 385-391
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1972-12909-4