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Contents of Volume 27, Number 2
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Riemann surfaces and the geometrization of 3-manifolds
Curt McMullen PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 207-216
Prevalence: a translation-invariant “almost every” on infinite-dimensional spaces
Brian R. Hunt, Tim Sauer and James A. Yorke PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 217-238
Smooth static solutions of the Einstein-Yang/Mills equations
J. Smoller, A. Wasserman, S. T. Yau and B. McLeod PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 239-242
The 1-, 2-, and 3-characters determine a group
H.-J. Hoehnke and K. W. Johnson PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 243-245
A characterization of convex hyperbolic polyhedra and of convex polyhedra inscribed in the sphere
Craig D. Hodgson, Igor Rivin and Warren D. Smith PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 246-251
Piercing convex sets
Noga Alon and Daniel J. Kleitman PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 252-256
On the Burnside problem on periodic groups
Sergei V. Ivanov PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 257-260
Curvature, triameter, and beyond
Karsten Grove and Steen Markvorsen PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 261-265
New types of soliton solutions
F. Gesztesy, W. Karwowski and Z. Zhao PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 266-272
Additive functions on shifted primes
P. D. T. A. Elliott PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 273-278
Keller’s cube-tiling conjecture is false in high dimensions
Jeffrey C. Lagarias and Peter W. Shor PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 279-283
Is the boundary of a Siegel disk a Jordan curve?
James T. Rogers PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 284-287
Negatively Ricci curved manifolds
Joachim Lohkamp PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 288-291
Voiculescu theorem, Sobolev lemma, and extensions of smooth algebras
Xiaolu Wang PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 292-297
A shooting approach to the Lorenz equations
S. P. Hastings and W. C. Troy PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 298-303

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

Norbert Wiener 1894--1964, by P. R. Masani.
Reviewer: J. L. Doob
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 304-305
Algebraic-geometric codes, by M. A. Tsfasman and S. G. Vl\u adu\c t.
Reviewer: J. H. van Lint
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 306-310
Tubes, by Alfred Gray.
Reviewer: John Douglas Moore
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 311-313
Evolution of random search trees, by Hosam M. Mahmoud.
Reviewer: David Aldous
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 313-315
The topology of torus actions on symplectic manifolds, by Mich\`ele Audin.
Reviewer: Viktor L. Ginzburg
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 315-320
The energy method, stability, and nonlinear convection, by Brian Straughan.
Reviewer: Howard Levine
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 320-323
Introduction to complex analytic geometry, by Stanislaw \L ojasiewicz.
Reviewer: Michel Hervé
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 323-326
Patterns and waves: The theory and applications of reaction-diffusion equations, by Peter Grinrod.
Reviewer: G. S. Gill
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 326-327
Algebraic curves over finite fields, by C. J. Moreno.
Reviewer: J. W. P. Hirschfeld
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 327-332
Analytic pseudodifferential operators for the Heisenberg group and local solvability, by Darryl Geller.
Reviewer: L. Boutet de Monvel
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 332-336
Quasi-symmetric designs, by Mohan S. Shrikhande and Sharad S. Sane.
Reviewer: A. R. Calderbank
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 337-339