Contents of Volume 17, Number 1

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Claude Chevalley $\left ( {1909 - 1984} \right )$

Jean Dieudonné and Jacques Tits.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 1-7
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 17, Number 1 (1987)

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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 17, Number 1 (1987)

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Recent developments in information-based complexity

Edward W. Packel and Henryk Woźniakowski.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 9-36
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The Yamabe problem

John M. Lee and Thomas H. Parker.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 37-91
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Quantum field theory in ninety minutes

Paul Federbush.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 93-103
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Amalgamations and the Kervaire problem

S. M. Gersten.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 105-108
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Group actions and equivariant Lipschitz analysis

Mel Rothenberg and Shmuel Weinberger.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 109-112
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Induction theorems for infinite groups

John A. Moody.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 113-116
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Globalizations of Harish-Chandra modules

Wilfried Schmid and Joseph A. Wolf.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 117-120
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On the decidability of Diophantine problems in combinatorial geometry

Bernd Sturmfels.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 121-124
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The degree of a Severi variety

Ziv Ran.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 125-128
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Representations of mod $p$ Lie algebras

Eric M. Friedlander and Brian J. Parshall.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 129-132
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BMO on the Bergman spaces of the classical domains

C. A. Berger, L. A. Coburn and K. H. Zhu.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 133-136
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Isospectral Riemannian metrics and potentials

Dennis M. Deturck and Carolyn S. Gordon.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 137-139
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Smooth nontrivial 4-dimensional $s$-cobordisms

Sylvain E. Cappell and Julius L. Shaneson.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 141-143
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Erratum

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Finite groups of Lie type. Conjugacy classes and complex characters, by Roger W. Carter.

Reviewer: T. A. Springer
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 145-148
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The arithmetic of elliptic curves, by Joseph H. Silverman.

Reviewer: J. W. S. Cassels
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 148-149
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Geometry of CR-submanifolds, by Aurel Bejancu.

Reviewer: Bang-yen Chen
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 149-152
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Noncommutative harmonic analysis, by Michael E. Taylor.

Reviewer: Robert S. Strichartz
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 152-156
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Near-rings and their links with groups, by J. D. P. Meldrum.

Reviewer: Günter F. Pilz
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 156-160
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Theory of codes, by Jean Berstel and Dominique Perrin.

Reviewer: Juhani Karhumäki
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 161-167
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Positive operators, by C. D. Aliprantis and O Burkinshaw.

Reviewer: N. J. Kalton
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 168-169
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On the Cauchy problem, by Sigeru Mizohata.

Reviewer: Michael Beals
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 169-176
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Nonlinear approximation theory, by Dietrich Braess.

Reviewer: E. W. Cheney
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 176-177
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Theory of limit cycles, by Ye Yan-qian, Cai Sui-lin, Chen Lan-sun, Huang Ke-cheng, Luo Ding-jun, Ma Zhi-en, Wang Er-nian, Wang Ming-shu and Yang Xin-an.

Reviewer: Allen Tannenbaum
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 178-180
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Vanishing theorems on complex manifolds, by Bernard Shiffman and Andrew John Sommese.

Reviewer: Michael Schneider
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 180-183
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Singularities of differentiable maps, Vol. 1. The classification of critical sets, caustics and wave fronts, by V. I. Arnol′d, S. M. Gusein-Zade and A. N. Varchenko.

Reviewer: C. T. C. Wall
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 183-186
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The higher calculus: A history of real and complex analysis from Euler to Weierstrass, by Umberto Bottazzini.

Reviewer: C. Truesdell
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 186-189
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Empirical processes with applications to statistics, by Galen R. Shorack and Jon A. Wellner.

Reviewer: Miklós Csörgő
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 189-200
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Enigmas of chance. An autobiography, by Mark Kac.

Reviewer: Z. W. Birnbaum
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 200-202
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Derivations, dissipations and group actions on $C^ *$-algebras, by Ola Bratteli.

Reviewer: Palle E. T. Jorgensen
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 202-209
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