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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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Contents of Volume 36, Number 2
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Why the characteristic polynomial factors
Bruce E. Sagan PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 113-133
Analytic and geometric background of recurrence and non-explosion of the Brownian motion on Riemannian manifolds
Alexander Grigor’yan PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 135-249

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

Young tableaux: With applications to representation theory and geometry, by William Fulton.
Reviewer: Arun Ram
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 251-259
Modular forms and Fermat's Last Theorem, by G. Cornell, J. H. Silverman and G. Stevens.
Reviewer: Kevin Buzzard
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 261-266
Topics in disordered systems, by C. M. Newman.
Reviewer: Kenneth S. Alexander
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 267-270