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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)

The 2020 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.84.

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567896
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Bertrand Mercier
Title: An introduction to the numerical analysis of spectral methods
Additional book information: Lecture Notes in Phys., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York, 1989, 154 pp., $23.30. ISBN 3-540-51106-7.

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  • Wei Cai, David Gottlieb, and Chi-Wang Shu, Essentially nonoscillatory spectral Fourier methods for shock wave calculations, Math. Comp. 52 (1989), no. 186, 389–410. MR 955749, DOI 10.1090/S0025-5718-1989-0955749-2
  • Yvon Maday and Eitan Tadmor, Analysis of the spectral vanishing viscosity method for periodic conservation laws, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 26 (1989), no. 4, 854–870. MR 1005513, DOI 10.1137/0726047

  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Levi Lustman
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 23 (1990), 626-629
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1990-16009-4