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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.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567754
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Book Information:

Author: S. J. Patterson
Title: An introduction to the theory of the Riemann zeta-function
Additional book information: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, vol. 14, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1988, xiii + 156 pp., $34.50. ISBN 0-521-33535-3.

Author: A. G. Postnikov
Title: Introduction to analytic number theory
Additional book information: with an appendix by P. D. T. A. Elliott. Translated by G. A. Kandall. Translations of Mathematical Monographs, vol. 68, American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I., 1988, vi + 320 pp., $114.00. ISBN 0-8218-4521-7.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: M. Ram Murty
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 20 (1989), 226-229
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15773-X