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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 41, Number 4
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A survey of entropy methods for partial differential equations
Lawrence C. Evans PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 409-438
A tour of the theory of absolutely minimizing functions
Gunnar Aronsson, Michael G. Crandall and Petri Juutinen PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 439-505
KAM theory: The legacy of Kolmogorov’s 1954 paper
Henk W. Broer PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 507-521

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

Painleve differential equations in the complex plane, by V. I. Gromak, I. Laine and S. Shimomura.
Reviewer: Norbert Steinmetz
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 523-528
Perfect lattices in Euclidean spaces, by Jacques Martinet.
Reviewer: Gabriele Nebe
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 529-533
State spaces of operator algebras: Basic theory, orientations, and C*-products, by Erik M. Alfsen and Frederic W. Shultz.
Geometry of state spaces of operator algebras, by Erik M. Alfsen and Frederic W. Shultz.
Reviewer: Nik Weaver
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 535-539
Spectral theory of linear operators--and spectral systems in Banach algebras, by Vladimir Müller.
Reviewer: Martin Schechter
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 541-543
Gnomes in the fog: The reception of Brouwer's intuitionism in the 1920s, by Dennis E. Hesseling.
Reviewer: Edward Nelson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 545-549
Spatial ecology via reaction-diffusion equations, by R. S. Cantrell and C. Cosner.
Reviewer: H. L. Smith
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 551-557
Nonlinear dynamics in physiology and medicine, edited by A. Beuter, L. Glass, M. C. Mackey and M. S. Titcombe.
Reviewer: James Sneyd
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 559-564