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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: 1567042
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Dennis A. Hejhal
Title: The Selberg trace formula for $PSL\,\left( {2,\mathbf{R}} \right)$, Volume I
Additional book information: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1976, iv + 516 pp., $15.20.

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  • A. Selberg, Harmonic analysis and discontinuous groups in weakly symmetric Riemannian spaces with applications to Dirichlet series, J. Indian Math. Soc. (N.S.) 20 (1956), 47–87. MR 88511

  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: S. J. Patterson
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 256-260
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14466-8