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Contents of Volume 17, Number 2
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 17, Number 2 (1987)
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 17, Number 2 (1987)
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The structure of algebraic threefolds: an introduction to Mori’s program
János Kollár PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 211-273
Rochlin invariants, theta multipliers and holonomy
Ronnie Lee, Edward Y. Miller and Steven H. Weintraub PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 275-278
Algebraic vector bundles over real algebraic varieties
M. Buchner and W. Kucharz PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 279-282
On the $C^\infty$ invariance of the canonical classes of certain algebraic surfaces
Robert Friedman, Boris Moishezon and John W. Morgan PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 283-286
Exotic knottings of surfaces in the 4-sphere
S. M. Finashin, M. Kreck and O. Ya. Viro PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 287-290
Conformal geometry and complete minimal surfaces
Rob Kusner PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 291-295
Properties of properly embedded minimal surfaces of finite topology
David Hoffman and William H. Meeks III PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 296-300
The Arnol′d formula for algebraically completely integrable systems
J.-P. Françoise PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 301-303
Singularities of energy-minimizing maps from the ball to the sphere
Frederick J. Almgren Jr and Elliott H. Lieb PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 304-306
On real quadratic fields
Gilles Lachaud PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 307-311
On the situation of nodes of plane curves
Robert Treger PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 312-314
The topology and geometry of embedded surfaces of constant mean curvature
William H. Meeks III PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 315-317
Constant mean curvature surfaces in Euclidean three-space
Nicolaos Kapouleas PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 318-320
The indecomposable $K_3$ of fields
Marc Levine PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 321-325
The topological structure of the space of algebraic varieties
H. Blaine Lawson Jr PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 326-330
Generalized Albanese varieties for surfaces
Hurşit Önsiper PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 331-332
Cohomology of the infinite-dimensional Lie algebra $L_1$ with nontrivial coefficients
B. L. Feigin and A. Fialowski PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 333-337
Corrigendum to: Smooth nontrivial 4-dimensional $s$-cobordisms
Sylvain E. Cappell and Julius L. Shaneson PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 401
Author Index to Volumes $16-17$
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 403-408

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

Group theory., by Michio Suzuki.
Reviewer: J. L. Alperin
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 339-340
Introduction to various aspects of degree theory in Banach spaces, by E. H. Rothe.
Reviewer: Klaus Deimling
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 340-343
Potential theory, an analytic and probabilistic approach to balayage, by J. Bliedtner and W. Hansen.
Reviewer: Joseph Glover
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 343-345
Functional integration and partial differential equations, by Mark Freidlin.
Reviewer: Martin Day
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 346-351
Applied nonlinear analysis, by Jean-Pierre Aubin and Ivar Ekeland.
Reviewer: J. Warga
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 351-358
Completely bounded maps and dilations, by Vern I. Paulsen.
Reviewer: John W. Bunce
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 358-359
Enumerative combinatorics, vol. I, by Richard P. Stanley.
Reviewer: George E. Andrews
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 360-365
One-parameter semigroups of positive operators, by W. Arendt, A. Grabosch, G. Greiner, U. Groh, H. P. Lotz, U. Moustakas, R. Nagel, F. Neubrander and U. Schlotterbeck.
Reviewer: Jerome A. Goldstein
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 365-369
Tilings and patterns, by Branko Grünbaum and G. C. Shephard.
Reviewer: L. Fejes Tóth
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 369-372
Asymptotics of high order differential equations, by R. B. Paris and A. D. Wood.
Reviewer: Wolfgang Wasow
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 373-376
Manifolds of nonpositive curvature, by Werner Ballmann, Mikhael Gromov and Viktor Schroeder.
Reviewer: Ernst Heintze
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 376-380
Diophantine inequalities, by R. C. Baker.
Reviewer: Wolfgang M. Schmidt
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 380-385
Nonstandard methods in stochastic analysis and mathematical physics, by Sergio Albeverio, Raphael Høegh-Krohn, Jens Erik Fenstad and Tom Lindstrøm.
Reviewer: A. E. Hurd
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 385-389
A local spectral theorem for closed operators, by Ivan Erdelyi and Wang Shengwang.
Reviewer: Shmuel Kantorovitz
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 389-391
Representation theory of semisimple groups. An overview based on examples, by Anthony W. Knapp.
Reviewer: David A. Vogan, Jr.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 392-396
Localization in Noetherian rings, by A. V. Jategaonkar.
Reviewer: Robert B. Warfield
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 396-400