Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Contents of Volume 42, Number 4
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Mathematics, mathematicians, and mathematics education
Hyman Bass PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 417-430
OPUC on one foot
Barry Simon PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 431-460
Complex symplectic spaces and boundary value problems
W. N. Everitt and L. Markus PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 461-500

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

Mathematics in population biology, by Horst R. Thieme.
Reviewer: J. M. Cushing
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 501-505
Hodge theory and complex algebraic geometry I, II, by Claire Voisin.
Reviewer: Herbert Clemens
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 507-520
Spatial deterministic epidemics, by Linda Rass and John Radcliffe.
Bioterrorism: Mathematical modeling applications in homeland security, edited by H. T. Banks and Carlos Castillo-Chavez.
Reviewer: Odo Diekmann
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 521-527
Abelian varieties, theta functions and the Fourier transform, by Alexander Polishchuk.
Reviewer: Arnaud Beauville
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 529-533
Lectures on the orbit method, by A. A. Kirillov.
Reviewer: David A. Vogan, Jr.
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 535-544
The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge: A study in high-accuracy numerical computing, by Folkmar Bornemann, Dirk Laurie, Stan Wagon and Jörg Waldvogel.
Reviewer: David H. Bailey
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 545-548
Introduction to Möbius differential geometry, by Udo Hertrich-Jeromin.
Reviewer: Thomas E. Cecil
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 549-554
Most honorable remembrance: The life and works of Thomas Bayes, by Andrew I. Dale.
Reviewer: S. L. Zabell
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 555-559