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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 39, Number 2
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The octonions
John C. Baez PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 145-205
Selected new aspects of the calculus of variations in the large
Ivar Ekeland and Nassif Ghoussoub PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 207-265
Erratum to “New horizons in pro-$p$ groups"
Alexander Lubotzky PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 299-299

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

Characters of finite Coxeter groups and Iwahori-Hecke algebras, by Meinolf Geck and Götz Pfeiffer.
Reviewer: Roger W. Carter
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 267-272
Lectures on spaces of nonpositive curvature, by W. Ballmann.
Metric spaces of non-positive curvature, by Martin R. Bridson and André Haefliger.
Geometry of nonpositively curved manifolds, by Patrick B. Eberlein.
Reviewer: Bruce Kleiner
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 273-279
Random walks on infinite graphs and groups, by Wolfgang Woess.
Reviewer: Toshikazu Sunada
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 281-285
Holomorphy and convexity in Lie theory, by Karl-Hermann Neeb.
Reviewer: Bent Orsted
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 287-291
Character sums with exponential functions and their applications, by S. Konyagin and I. Shparlinski.
Reviewer: W. Duke
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 293-297