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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 54, Number 3
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Laplacian growth, sandpiles, and scaling limits
Lionel Levine and Yuval Peres PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (2017), 355-382
Hamiltonian and symplectic symmetries: An introduction
Álvaro Pelayo PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (2017), 383-436
Some singular equations modeling MEMS
Philippe Laurençot and Christoph Walker PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (2017), 437-479
Five stages of accepting constructive mathematics
Andrej Bauer PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (2017), 481-498

Mathematical Perspectives


About the cover: Leonhard Euler, teacher and mentor
Gerald L. Alexanderson PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (2017), 499-504
Selections Reprinted from Mathematical Reviews
Review information PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (2017), 505-520

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

Elements of mathematics: from Euclid to Gödel, by John Stillwell.
Reviewer: Victor J. Katz
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (2017), 521-528
Lecture notes on mean curvature flow: barriers and singular perturbations, by Giovanni Bellettini.
Reviewer: William P. Minicozzi II
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (2017), 529-532
Foundation of free noncommutative function theory, by Dmitry S. Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi and Victor Vinnikov.
Reviewer: Vladimir Retakh
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (2017), 533-536
William Feller, Selected papers I, edited by René L. Schilling, Zoran Vondracek and Wojbor A. Woyczyński.
William Feller, Selected papers II, edited by René L. Schilling, Zoran Vondracek and Wojbor A. Woyczyński.
Reviewer: Anthony G. Pakes
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (2017), 537-540