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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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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 3309607
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Book Information:

Author: Alain-Sol Sznitman
Title: Topics in occupation times and Gaussian free fields
Additional book information: EMS Textbooks in Mathematics, European Mathematical Society, Z\"urich, 2012, viii+114 pp., ISBN 978-3-03719-109-5, \geneuro{}28.00

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: S. R. S. Varadhan
    Affiliation: Courant Institute
    Email: varadhan@cims.nyu.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 52 (2015), 167-169
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2014-01472-7
    Published electronically: September 9, 2014
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2014 American Mathematical Society