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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)

The 2020 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.84.

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Contents of Volume 57, Number 1
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The mathematics of Andrei Suslin
Eric M. Friedlander and Alexander S. Merkurjev HTML | PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 1-22
Tangent developable surfaces and the equations defining algebraic curves
Lawrence Ein and Robert Lazarsfeld HTML | PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 23-38
Verifying quantum computations at scale: A cryptographic leash on quantum devices
Thomas Vidick HTML | PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 39-76
The shuffle conjecture
Stephanie van Willigenburg HTML | PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 77-89
Minimal surfaces and free boundaries: Recent developments
Luis A. Caffarelli and Yannick Sire HTML | PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 91-106

Mathematical Perspectives


About the cover: Andrei Suslin, 1950–2018
Eric M. Friedlander PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 107-109
Selections Reprinted from Mathematical Reviews
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 111-127

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

Philosophy of Mathematics, by Øystein Linnebo.
Reviewer: Robert P. Crease
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 129-131
Algebraic geometry II, by David Mumford and Tadao Oda.
Reviewer: Scott Nollet
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 133-143
Fourier restriction for hypersurfaces in three dimensions and Newton polyhedra, by Isroil A. Ikromov and Detlef Müller.
Reviewer: Andreas Seeger
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 145-151
Elementary applied topology, by Robert W. Ghrist.
Persistence theory: From quiver representations to data analysis, by Steve Y. Oudot.
Reviewer: José A. Perea
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 153-159
Combinatorics and random matrix theory, by Jinho Baik, Percy Deift and Toufic Suidan.
Dynamical approach to random matrix theory, by L. Erdős and H. T. Yau.
Reviewer: Terence Tao
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 161-169