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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: 1567447
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Enrico J. White
Title: The method of iterated tangents with applications in local Riemannian geometry
Additional book information: Monographs and Studies in Mathematics, vol. 13, Pitman Publishing Incorporated, Marshfield, Mass., 1982, xx + 252 pp., $39.95. ISBN 0-2730-8515-8.

References [Enhancements On Off] (What's this?)

  • Shoshichi Kobayashi, Transformation groups in differential geometry, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, Band 70, Springer-Verlag, New York-Heidelberg, 1972. MR 0355886
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    T. Levi-Civita, The absolute differential calculus (calculus of tensors), Blackie, Glasgow, 1926; republished by Dover, N. Y., 1977.
    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Howard Jacobowitz
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1983), 111-115
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15177-7