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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 42, Number 1
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Commentary
Donald G. Saari PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 1-1
It is easy to determine whether a given integer is prime
Andrew Granville PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 3-38
The interior-point revolution in optimization: History, recent developments, and lasting consequences
Margaret H. Wright PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 39-56
Recent progress on the Poincaré conjecture and the classification of 3-manifolds
John W. Morgan PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 57-78

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

Riemann surfaces of infinite genus, by J. Feldman, H. K\"norrer and E. Trubowitz.
Reviewer: Henry P. McKean
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 79-87
Mathematics of medical imaging, by Charles L. Epstein.
Inside out: Inverse problems and applications, edited by Gunther Uhlmann.
Reviewer: F. Natterer
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 89-91
Cohomological invariants in Galois cohomology, by Skip Garibaldi, Alexander Merkurjev and Jean-Pierre Serre.
Reviewer: John Swallow
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 93-98
The symmetry perspective: From equilibrium to chaos in phase space and physical space, by Martin Golubitsky and Ian Stewart.
Reviewer: Peter Ashwin
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 99-103
Introduction to foliations and Lie groupoids, by I. Moerdijk and J. Mrcun.
Reviewer: Lawrence Conlon
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 105-111
Computational algebraic geometry, by H. Schenck.
Reviewer: David A. Cox
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 113-118