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)

The 2024 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.84.

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Review information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 56 (2019), 691-703
Published electronically: July 30, 2019
Full text: PDF

MR: 0000169 (1,28f)
Elie Cartan
Sur des familles remarquables d’hypersurfaces isoparamétriques dans les espaces sphériques.
Mathematische Zeitschrift 45, (1939), 335–367
Reviewed by: T. Y. Thomas

MR: 0009471 (5,154f)
B. Segre
A note on arithmetical properties of cubic surfaces.
Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series 18, (1943), 24–31
Reviewed by: O. Zariski

MR: 0568901 (58 #27964)
Bernard Teissier
The hunting of invariants in the geometry of discriminants.
1977, 565–678 pp.
Reviewed by: Jonathan M. Wahl

MR: 0877010 (88d:14004)
Horst Knörrer
Cohen–Macaulay modules on hypersurface singularities. I.
Inventiones Mathematicae 88, (1987), no. 1, 153–164
Reviewed by: Tomás Sánchez-Giralda

MR: 0877011 (88d:14005)
R.-O. Buchweitz, G.-M. Greuel and F.-O. Schreyer
Cohen–Macaulay modules on hypersurface singularities. II.
Inventiones Mathematicae 88, (1987), no. 1, 165–182
Reviewed by: Tomás Sánchez-Giralda

MR: 1092845 (92g:14014)
Aaron Bertram, Lawrence Ein and Robert Lazarsfeld
Vanishing theorems, a theorem of Severi, and the equations defining projective varieties.
Journal of the American Mathematical Society 4, (1991), no. 3, 587–602
Reviewed by: Marco Andreatta

MR: 1491444 (99c:14018)
Steven Dale Cutkosky
Local factorization of birational maps.
Advances in Mathematics 132, (1997), no. 2, 167–315
Reviewed by: Vincent Cossart

MR: 1978567 (2004d:14009)
Herwig Hauser
The Hironaka theorem on resolution of singularities (or: A proof we always wanted to understand).
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. (New Series) 40, (2003), no. 3, 323–403
Reviewed by: Santiago Encinas

MR: 2079993 (2005i:14055)
Grigory Mikhalkin
Decomposition into pairs-of-pants for complex algebraic hypersurfaces.
Topology. An International Journal of Mathematics 43, (2004), no. 5, 1035–1065
Reviewed by: G. K. Sankaran

MR: 3359052
Claire Voisin
Unirational threefolds with no universal codimension $2$ cycle.
Inventiones Mathematicae 201, (2015), no. 1, 207–237
Reviewed by: M. Kh. Gizatullin