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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Contents of Volume 15, Number 2
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 15, Number 2 (1986)
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 15, Number 2 (1986)
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Computers and the nature of man: a historian’s perspective on controversies about artificial intelligence
Judith V. Grabiner PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 113-126
Michael’s problem and the Poincaré-Fatou-Bieberbach phenomenon
P. G. Dixon and J. Esterle PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 127-187
A generalization of the Tarski-Seidenberg theorem, and some nondefinability results
Lou van den Dries PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 189-193
A weak Ramanujan conjecture for generic cuspidal spectrum of quasi-split groups
Freydoon Shahidi PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 195-200
Propagation of singularities of solutions to semilinear boundary value problems
Florin David and Mark Williams PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 201-204
The cyclic homology and $K$-theory of curves
S. Geller, L. Reid and C. Weibel PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 205-208
Direct images of Hermitian holomorphic bundles
H. Gillet and C. Soulé PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 209-212
Potential theory for the Schrödinger equation
M. Cranston, E. Fabes and Z. Zhao PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 213-216
Freud’s conjecture for exponential weights
D. S. Lubinsky, H. N. Mhaskar and E. B. Saff PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 217-221
The trace formula for vector bundles
V. Guillemin and A. Uribe PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 222-224
Counterexamples in the theory of nonselfadjoint operator algebras
W. R. Wogen PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 225-227
The asymptotics of $e^{P\left ( z \right )}$ and the number of elements of each order in $S_n$
Herbert S. Wilf PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 228-232
Nonclassical eigenvalue asymptotics for operators of Schrödinger type
David Gurarie PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 233-237
Author index to Volumes 14-15
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 261-264

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

Non-archimedean analysis, by S. Bosch, U. Güntzer and R. Remmert.
Géométrie analytique rigide et applications, by Jean Fresnel and Marius van der Put.
Reviewer: Lothar Gerritzen
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 239-243
Topology and analysis, the Atiyah-Singer index formula and gauge-theoretic physics, by B. Booss and D. D. Bleecker.
Reviewer: Nigel J. Hitchin
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 243-245
Sequence transformations and their applications, by Jet Wimp.
Reviewer: Richard R. Tucker
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 245-252
Linear turning point theory, by Wolfgang Wasow.
Reviewer: Nicholas D. Kazarinoff
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 252-254
Theory of multipliers in spaces of differentiable functions, by V. G. Maz′ya and T. O. Shaposhnikova.
Reviewer: David R. Adams
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 254-259