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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.

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Contents of Volume 38, Number 2
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Portrait of Alexander (1888-1971)
I. M. James PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 123-129
Resolution of singularities and modular Galois theory
Shreeram S. Abhyankar PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 131-169
Noncommutative curves and noncommutative surfaces
J. T. Stafford and M. Van den Bergh PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 171-216

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

Simplicial homotopy theory, by Paul G. Goerss and John F. Jardine.
Reviewer: Brayton Gray
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 217-220
An introduction to the theory of local zeta functions, by Jun-ichi Igusa.
Reviewer: Margaret Robinson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 221-227
4-manifolds and Kirby calculus, by Robert Gompf and András Stipsicz.
Reviewer: Dave Auckly
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 229-234
Inverse Galois theory, by G. Malle and B. H. Matzat.
Reviewer: Helmut Völklein
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 235-243
Rings, modules, and algebras in stable homotopy theory, by A. D. Elmendorf, I. Kriz, M. A. Mandell and M. Cole J. P. May.
Equivariant homotopy and cohomology theory, by J. P. May, with contributions by M. Cole, G. Comezaña, S. Costenoble, A. D. Elmendorf, J. P. C. Greenlees, Jr. L. G. Lewis, R. J. Piacenza, G. Triantafillou and S. Waner.
A concise course in algebraic topology, by J. P. May.
Reviewer: John McCleary
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 245-250
Harmonic maps, loop groups, and integrable systems, by M. A. Guest.
Reviewer: Josef Dorfmeister
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 251-254
Quasiconformal Teichmüller theory, by F. P. Gardiner and N. Lakic.
Reviewer: Irwin Kra
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 255-265
Birational geometry of algebraic varieties, by János Kollár and with the collaboration of C. H. Clemens and A. Corti Shigefumi Mori.
Reviewer: Yujiro Kawamata
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 267-272