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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 Reviews
Book reviews do not contain an abstract. You may download the entire review from the links below.


Erratum: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 299-299.
Profinite groups by J. S. Wilson
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 475-479
Additional book information: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998, ix+284 pp., ISBN 0-19-850082-3, $115.00$

Profinite groups by L. Ribes and P. Zalesskii
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 475-479
Additional book information: Springer, New York, 2000, xiv+ 435 pp., ISBN 3-540-66986-8, $109.00$

Analytic pro-$p$ groups by J. D. Dixon, M. P. F. du Sautoy, A. Mann and D. Segal
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 475-479
Additional book information: 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1999, xviii+ 368 pp., ISBN 0-521-65011-9, $59.95$

New horizons in pro-$p$ groups
Editors: M. du Sautoy, D. Segal and A. Shalen
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 475-479
Additional book information: edited by M. du Sautoy, D. Segal and A. Shalen, Birkhäuser, Boston, 2000, xiii+423 pp., ISBN 0-8176-4171-8, $79.00$

References
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    M.D. Fried, M. Jarden, Field Arithmetic, Springer, Berlin, 1986. MR 89b:12010
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    H. Furstenberg, On the infinitude of primes, Amer. Math. Monthly 62 (1955), 353. MR 16:904e
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    M. Lazard, Groupes analytiques $p$-adiques, Publ. Math. I.H.E.S. 26 (1965), 389-603. MR 35:188
    [LM]
    A. Lubotzky, A. Mann, Residually finite groups of finite rank, Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 106 (1989), 385-388. MR 91a:20028
    [R]
    L. Ribes, Profinite Groups and Galois Cohomology, Queen's Papers Pure Appl. Math. 24 (1970), Kingston, ON, Canada. MR 41:5495
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    J.-P. Serre, Cohomologie Galoisienne, Lect. Notes Math. 5, third ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1965. MR 34:1328
Reviewer information
  • Reviewer: Alexander Lubotzky
  • Affiliation: Hebrew University
  • Email: alexlub@math.huji.ac.il
Additional Information
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 475-479
  • Published electronically: June 12, 2001
  • Review Copyright: © Copyright 2001 American Mathematical Society