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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: 1567188
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: David Ruelle
Title: Thermodynamic formalism: The mathematical structures of classical equilibrium statistical mechanics
Additional book information: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications (Gian-Carlo Rota, Editor), vol. 5, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1978, xix + 183 pp., $21.50.

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  • Robert B. Israel, Convexity in the theory of lattice gases, Princeton Series in Physics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1979. With an introduction by Arthur S. Wightman. MR 517873

  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: D. G. Babbitt
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 931-935
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14695-0