American Mathematical Society

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.

What is MCQ? The Mathematical Citation Quotient (MCQ) measures journal impact by looking at citations over a five-year period. Subscribers to MathSciNet may click through for more detailed information.

Book Review

The AMS does not provide abstracts of book reviews. You may download the entire review from the links below.

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

Author: Saharon Shelah
Title: Cardinal arithmetic
Additional book information: Oxford Logic Guides, vol. 29, Oxford Univ. Press, London and New York, 1994, xxxi + 481 pp., ISBN 0-19-853785-9, $105.00$

Maxim R. Burke and Menachem Magidor, Shelah’s $\textrm {pcf}$ theory and its applications, Ann. Pure Appl. Logic 50 (1990), no. 3, 207–254. MR 1086455, DOI 10.1016/0168-0072(90)90057-9

Thomas Jech, Singular cardinal problem: Shelah’s theorem on $2^{\aleph _\omega }$, Bull. London Math. Soc. 24 (1992), no. 2, 127–139. MR 1148672, DOI 10.1112/blms/24.2.127

Review Information:

Reviewer: James E. Baumgartner
Affiliation: Dartmouth College
Email: james.baumgartner@dartmouth.edu