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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.

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Contents of Volume 18, Number 1
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 18, Number 1 (1988)
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Algebraic surfaces and 4-manifolds: Some conjectures and speculations
Robert Friedman and John W. Morgan PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 1-19
Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 18, Number 1 (1988)
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Classical invariant theory and the equivalence problem for particle Lagrangians
Peter J. Olver PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 21-26
Virtual cohomological dimension of mapping class groups of 3-manifolds
Darryl McCullough PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 27-30
Numerical methods for extremal problems in the calculus of variations and optimal control theory
John Gregory PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 31-34
A note on the location of complex zeros of solutions of linear differential equations
Steven B. Bank PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 35-38
Asymptotics of small eigenvalues of Riemann surfaces
Marc Burger PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 39-40
On the 2-decomposition numbers of ${\text {Sp}}\left ( {4,q} \right )$
Donald L. White PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 41-44
Tightly closed ideals
Melvin Hochster and Craig Huneke PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 45-48
On Fourier coefficients of a continuous periodic function of bounded entropy norm
Romuald Dąbrowski PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 49-51
An extension of the Kahane-Khinchine inequality
David C. Ullrich PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 52-54
Estimates for the Bergman and Szegö kernels in certain weakly pseudoconvex domains
Alexander Nagel, Jean-Pierre Rosay, Elias M. Stein and Stephen Wainger PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 55-59
Erratum
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 115

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

Prime numbers and computer methods for factorization, by Hans Riesel.
Reviewer: Carl Pomerance
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 61-65
Monotone iterative techniques for nonlinear differential equations, by G. S. Ladde, V. Lakshmikantham and A. S. Vatsala.
Reviewer: C. V. Pao
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 65-67
$K$-theory for operator algebras, by Bruce Blackadar.
Reviewer: Christopher Lance
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 67-73
Applications of Lie groups to differential equations, by Peter J. Olver.
Reviewer: George W. Bluman
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 73-78
The geometry of discrete groups, by Alan F. Beardon.
Reviewer: Clifford J. Earle
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 78-80
Limit theorems for sums of exchangeable random variables, by Robert L. Taylor, Peter Z. Daffer and Ronald F. Patterson.
Reviewer: Henry Teicher
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 80-82
Projective representations of finite groups, by Gregory Karpilovsky.
Reviewer: William F. Reynolds
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 83-87
Sobolev spaces, by Vladimir G. Maz′ja.
Reviewer: Lars Inge Hedberg
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 87-88
Complex cobordism and stable homotopy groups of spheres, by Douglas C. Ravenel.
Reviewer: Peter S. Landweber
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 88-91
Geometric theory of foliations, by César Camacho and Alcides Lins Neto.
Reviewer: Joseph F. Plante
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 92-97
Symplectic techniques in physics, by Victor Guillemin and Shlomo Sternberg.
Reviewer: J. J. Duistermaat
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 97-100
Semigroups of linear operators and applications, by Jerome A. Goldstein.
Reviewer: Ola Bratteli
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 100-103
Foundations of algebraic analysis, by Masaki Kashiwara, Takahiro Kawai and Tatsuo Kimura.
Reviewer: J. L. Brylinsky
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 104-108
Recursively enumerable sets and degrees: A study of computable functions and computably generated sets, by Robert I. Soare.
Reviewer: Marian Boykan Pour-El
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 108-112
Modern geometry—methods and applications. Part II, The geometry and topology of manifolds, by B. A. Dubrovin, A. T. Fomenko and S. P. Novikov.
Reviewer: Melvyn S. Berger
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 112-114