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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: 1567255
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Rolf Lingenberg
Title: Metric planes and metric vector spaces
Additional book information: John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1979, xiv + 209 pp.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: E. A. Connors
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 531-537
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1980-14790-4