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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.

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Contents of Volume 8, Number 1
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 8, Number 1 (1983)
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 8, Number 1 (1983)
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Fifty years of homotopy theory
George W. Whitehead PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 1-29
What is a quantum field theory?
David C. Brydges PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 31-40
The point of pointless topology
Peter T. Johnstone PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 41-53
Exponential growth of the $l$-rank of the class group of the maximal real subfield of cyclotomic fields
Gary Cornell PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 55-58
On Puiseux series whose curves pass through an infinity of algebraic lattice points
David Lee Hilliker and E. G. Straus PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 59-62
On the vanishing of Poincaré series of rational functions
Irwin Kra PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 63-66
Dyer-Lashof operations in $K$-theory
James E. McClure PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 67-72
On the Schroedinger connection
R. E. Meyer and J. F. Painter PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 73-76
Foliations and the topology of 3-manifolds
David Gabai PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 77-80
Self-dual connections and the topology of smooth 4-manifolds
S. K. Donaldson PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 81-83
Diagonalizing matrices over operator algebras
Richard V. Kadison PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 84-86
Arithmetic characterizations of Sidon sets
Gilles Pisier PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 87-89
Arithmetic groups acting on compact manifolds
Robert J. Zimmer PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 90-92
Simultaneous similarity of matrices
Shmuel Friedland PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 93-95

Book Reviews
Book reviews do not contain an abstract. You may download each review in this issue using the links below.

Matrix-geometric solutions in stochastic models, an algorithmic approach, by Marcel F. Neuts.
Reviewer: Luis G. Vargas
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 97-99
Numerical analysis of variational inequalities, by R. Glowinski, J. L. Lions and R. Trémolières.
Reviewer: William W. Hager
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 100-102
Bounded analytic functions, by John B. Garnett.
Reviewer: Donald E. Sarason
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 102-108
Winning ways for your mathematical plays, by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy.
Reviewer: Solomon W. Golomb
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 108-111
Methods of representation theory with applications to finite groups and orders, vol. 1, by Charles W. Curtis and Irving Reiner.
Reviewer: Jon F. Carlson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 112-116
Some applications of topological $K$-theory, by N. Mahammed, R. Piccinini and U. Suter.
Reviewer: Victor Snaith
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 117-120
Finite simple groups, an introduction to their classification, by Daniel Gorenstein.
Reviewer: Walter Feit
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 120-124