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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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Book Information:

Author: Y. Oshima M. Fukushima, and M. Takeda
Title: Dirichlet forms & symmetric Markov processes
Additional book information: deGruyter Studies in Math., vol. 19, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Hawthorne, NY, 1994, viii + 392 pp., ISBN 3-11-011626-X, $79.95$

Author: Zhi-Ming Ma and Michael Rockner
Title: Dirichlet forms
Additional book information: Universitext, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1992, vi + 209 pp., ISBN 3-540-558480-9, $39.00$

References [Enhancements On Off] (What's this?)

  • E. B. Davies, Heat kernels and spectral theory, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, vol. 92, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990. MR 1103113
  • Masatoshi Fukushima, Dirichlet forms and Markov processes, North-Holland Mathematical Library, vol. 23, North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam-New York; Kodansha, Ltd., Tokyo, 1980. MR 569058

  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Daniel W. Stroock
    Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Email: dws@math.mit.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 87-92
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00617-9
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1996 American Mathematical Society