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Contents of Volume 18, Number 2
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 18, Number 2 (1988)
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 18, Number 2 (1988)
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Crabgrass, measles and gypsy moths: An introduction to modern probability
Richard Durrett PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 117-143
Topological transversality holds in all dimensions
Frank Quinn PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 145-148
Control variations with an increasing number of switchings
Matthias Kawski PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 149-152
The deformation theory of representations of fundamental groups of compact Kähler manifolds
William M. Goldman and John J. Millson PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 153-158
One-dimensional dynamics: The Schwarzian derivative and beyond
W. de Melo and S. van Strien PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 159-162
Band-limited functions: $L^p$-convergence
Juan Antonio Barceló and Antonio Juan Córdoba PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 163-166
Dyson’s crank of a partition
George E. Andrews and F. G. Garvan PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 167-171
Numerically determining solutions of systems of polynomial equations
T. Y. Li, Tim Sauer and James A. Yorke PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 173-177
Bounded geodesics for the Atiyah-Hitchin metric
Maciej P. Wojtkowski PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 179-183

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

Malcev-admissible algebras, by Hyo Chul Myung.
Reviewer: J. Marshall Osborn
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 185-187
Introduction to complex hyperbolic spaces, by Serge Lang.
Reviewer: Mark Green
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 188-191
Spectral geometry: Direct and inverse problems, by Pierre H. Bérard.
Reviewer: Burton Randol
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 191-193
Intégration et théorie des nombres, by Jean-Loup Mauclaire.
Reviewer: P. D. T. A. Elliott
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 193-209
Le problème des modules pour les branches planes, by Oscar Zariski.
Reviewer: Sherwood Washburn
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 209-214
Partial differential relations, by Mikhael Gromov.
Reviewer: Dusa McDuff
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 214-220
Fundamental principles of the theory of extremal problems, by Vladimir M. Tikhomirov.
Reviewer: John L. Troutman
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 220-224
Quadratic forms and Hecke operators, by Anatolij N. Andrianov.
Reviewer: Martin Eichler
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 224-230
Arithmetic functions and integer products, by P. D. T. A. Elliott.
Introduction to arithmetical functions, by Paul J. McCarthy.
Reviewer: Jean-Marie De Koninck
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 230-247
Global stability of dynamical systems, by Michael Shub.
Reviewer: Joel Robbin
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 248-250
Buchsbaum rings and applications: An interaction between algebra, geometry and topology, by Jürgen Stückrad and Wolfgang Vogel.
Reviewer: E. Graham Evans, Jr.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 251-253
Asymptotic theory of statistical inference, by B. L. S. Prakasa Rao.
Reviewer: Priscilla E. Greenwood
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 254-256
Invariant manifolds, entropy and billiards; smooth maps with singularities, by Anatole Katok and Jean-Marie Strelcyn.
Reviewer: Michael Brin
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 256-257