American Mathematical Society

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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Review information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 137-138
Published electronically: October 30, 2006
Full text: PDF

MR: 1614328 (99d:68077a)
Sanjeev Arora and Shmuel Safra
Probabilistic checking of proofs: a new characterization of NP. (English. English summary).
J. ACM 45, (1998), no. 1, 70–122

MR: 1639346 (99d:68077b)
Sanjeev Arora, Carsten Lund, Rajeev Motwani, Madhu Sudan and Mario Szegedy
Proof verification and the hardness of approximation problems. (English. English summary).
J. ACM 45, (1998), no. 3, 501–555
Reviewed by: Oded Goldreich