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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 50, Number 3
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Tercentennial anniversary of Bernoulli’s law of large numbers
Manfred Denker PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 373-390
Singular perturbations of complex polynomials
Robert L. Devaney PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 391-429
Chern–Weil forms and abstract homotopy theory
Daniel S. Freed and Michael J. Hopkins PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 431-468

Mathematical Perspectives


About the cover: Ars Conjectandi and Jacques Bernoulli
Edward C. Waymire PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 469-472
Selections Reprinted from Mathematical Reviews
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 473-479

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

Inevitable randomness in discrete mathematics, by József Beck.
Reviewer: J. Maurice Rojas
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 481-487
Random perturbations of dynamical systems, by Mark I. Freidlin and Alexander D. Wentzell.
Reviewer: Yuri Kifer
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 489-493
How groups grow, by Avinoam Mann.
Reviewer: V. Nekrashevych
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 495-502
Early days in complex dynamics: a history of complex dynamics in one variable during 1906–1942, by Daniel S. Alexander, Felice Iavernaro and Alessandro Rosa.
Reviewer: Rodrigo A. Pérez
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 503-511
Plato’s ghost: the modernist transformation of mathematics, by Jeremy Gray.
Reviewer: David E. Rowe
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 513-521
Fusion systems in algebra and topology, by M. Aschbacher, R. Kessar and B. Oliver.
The theory of fusion systems: an algebraic approach, by David A. Craven.
Reviewer: Markus Linckelmann
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 523-526