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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Contents of Volume 12, Number 2
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 12, Number 2 (1985)
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985)
Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 12, Number 2 (1985)
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985)
Some extremal functions in Fourier analysis
Jeffrey D. Vaaler PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 183-216
Equivariant $h$-cobordisms and finiteness obstructions
Mark Steinberger and James West PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 217-220
Algebraic $K$-theory of poly-(finite or cyclic) groups
Frank Quinn PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 221-226
Classification of first order theories which have a structure theorem
Saharon Shelah PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 227-232
Nonlinear stability of shock waves for viscous conservation laws
Tai-ping Liu PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 233-236
Gel′fand’s problem on unitary representations associated with discrete subgroups of $\{\text \{PSL\}\}\textunderscore 2 (\{\mathbf \{R\}\})$
Toshikazu Sunada PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 237-238
A new polynomial invariant of knots and links
P. Freyd, D. Yetter, J. Hoste, W. B. R. Lickorish, K. Millett and A. Ocneanu PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 239-246
On automorphisms of nodal Enriques surfaces
F. Cossec and I. Dolgachev PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 247-249
A completely integrable Hamiltonian system associated with line fitting in complex vector spaces
Anthony M. Bloch PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 250-254
A threshold for a caricature of the nerve equation
H. P. McKean and V. Moll PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 255-259
A generalization of Berger’s almost $\frac {1}{4}$-pinched manifolds theorem. I
O. Durumeric PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 260-264

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

Quadratic differentials, by Kurt Strebel.
Reviewer: Howard Masur
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 265-267
Boundary-value problems with free boundaries for elliptic systems of equations, by V. N. Monakhov.
Reviewer: R. Finn
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 268-270
Commutative semigroup rings, by Robert Gilmer.
Reviewer: Jack Ohm
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 270-272
Differential systems involving impulses, by S. G. Pandit and S. G. Deo.
Reviewer: O. Hájek
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 272-279
Einhüllende Algebren halbeinfacher Lie-Algebren, by Jens C. Jantzen.
Reviewer: David A. Vogan, Jr.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 279-283
Complex analysis, a functional analysis approach, by D. H. Luecking and L. A. Rubel.
Reviewer: R. B. Burckel
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 283-289
Spectral theory of Banach space operators, by Shmuel Kantorovitz.
Reviewer: Florian-Horia Vasilescu
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 289-292
The Cauchy problem, by H. O. Fattorini.
Reviewer: Jerome A. Goldstein
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 292-294
Bayes theory, by J. A. Hartigan.
Reviewer: William D. Sudderth
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 294-297
Combinatorial enumeration, by Ian P. Goulden and David M. Jackson.
Reviewer: Ira Gessel
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 297-301
Semigroups of linear operators and applications to partial differential equations, by A. Pazy.
Reviewer: Robert H. Martin, Jr.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 302-305
Amarts and set function processes, by Allen Gut and Klaus D. Schmidt.
Reviewer: Louis Sucheston
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 306-312