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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Contents of Volume 34, Number 1
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The mathematical enterprises of Robert Thomason
Charles A. Weibel PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 1-13
Singularities of harmonic maps
Robert M. Hardt PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 15-34

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

Visual geometry and topology, by Anatoly Fomenko.
Reviewer: Thomas Banchoff
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 35-38
The classification of the finite simple groups, by Daniel Gorenstein, Richard Lyons and Ronald Solomon.
Reviewer: Michael Aschbacher
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 39-41
Random series and stochastic integrals: Single and multiple, by Stanislaw Kwapien and Wojbor A. Woyczynski.
Reviewer: G. Kallianpur
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 43-48
Introduction to the theory of diffusion processes, by N.V. Krylov.
Reviewer: Jin Ma
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 49-53
Conjugacy classes in semisimple algebraic groups, by James E. Humphreys.
Reviewer: Claudio Procesi
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 55-56
Diffusions, Markov processes, and martingales, Volume One: Foundations, Second Edition, by L. C. G. Rogers and D. Williams.
Reviewer: Neil Falkner
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 57-62
Hochschild cohomology of von Neumann algebras, by Allan M. Sinclair and Roger R. Smith.
Reviewer: William L. Paschke
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 63-65
Elementary theory of $L$-functions and Eisenstein series, by Haruzo Hida.
Reviewer: Glenn Stevens
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 67-71
The heat kernel Lefschetz fixed point formula for the $\text {Spin}^c$ dirac operator, by J. J. Duistermaat.
Reviewer: Daniel S. Freed
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 73-78
Diagram geometries, by Antonio Pasini.
Reviewer: Anne Delandtsheer
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 79-83
Limit theorems of probability theory: Sequences of independent random variables, by Valentin V. Petrov.
Reviewer: Rabi Bhattacharya
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 85-88
Lie group actions in complex analysis, by Dmitri N. Akheizer.
Reviewer: Bruce Gilligan
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 89-93
Nonlinear nonlocal equations in the theory of waves, by P. I. Naumkin and I. A. Shishmarev.
Reviewer: John P. Albert
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 95-100
Metrizable barrelled spaces, by J. C. Ferrando, M. López Pellicer and L. M. Sánchez Ruiz.
Reviewer: Jerzy Ka̧kol
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 101-105