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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: 1567181
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Philippe G. Ciarlet
Title: The finite element method for elliptic problems
Additional book information: North-Holland, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 1978, xvii + 530 pp., $56.95.

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    Proceedings of the First Conference on Matrix Methods in Structural Mechanics, Wright-Patterson AFB Ohio, 1965.
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    J. L. Lions and E. Magenes, Problèmes aux limites non homogènes et applications, Dunod, Paris, 1968.

    Review Information:

    Reviewer: George J. Fix
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 800-802
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14679-2