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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 55, Number 3
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Introductory comments for the 2018 Editors’ Choice issue
Susan Friedlander PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 325-326
Commentary on “Numbers of solutions of equations in finite fields” by André Weil
Mark Goresky PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 327-329
Commentary on “Differentiable dynamical systems” by Stephen Smale
Maciej Zworski PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 331-336
Afterword: Dynamical zeta functions for Axiom A flows
Semyon Dyatlov and Colin Guillarmou PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 337-342
Commentary on “Ergodic theory of amenable group actions”: Old and new
Bryna Kra PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 343-345
Commentary: Three decades after Cathleen Synge Morawetz’s paper “The mathematical approach to the sonic barrier”
Irene M. Gamba PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 347-350
Commentary on “Arithmetic on curves” by Barry Mazur
Burt Totaro PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 351-351
Afterword to the article “Arithmetic on curves”
B. Mazur PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 353-358
Commentary on “Nonunique tangent maps at isolated singularities of harmonic maps” by Brian White
William P. Minicozzi II PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 359-362
Commentary on “Longest increasing subsequences: from patience sorting to the Baik–Deift–Johansson theorem” by David Aldous and Persi Diaconis
Ivan Corwin PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 363-374

Mathematical Perspectives


About the cover: Waring’s problems
Gerald L. Alexanderson and Leonard F. Klosinski PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 375-379
Selections Reprinted from Mathematical Reviews
Review information PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 381-397

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

Prime numbers and the Riemann hypothesis, by Barry Mazur and William Stein.
Reviewer: Peter Sarnak
Review information PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 399-400
Analytic combinatorics in several variables, by Robin Pemantle and Mark C. Wilson.
Reviewer: Robert Sedgewick
Review information PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 401-402