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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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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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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 4119620
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Book Information:

Authors: Paul Zimmermann, Alexandre Casamayou, Nathann Cohen, Guillaume Connan, Thierry Dumont, Laurent Fousse, François Maltey, Matthias Meulien, Marc Mezzarobba, Clément Pernet, Nicolas M. Thiéry, Erik Bray, John Cremona, Marcelo Forets, Alexandru Ghitza and Hugh Thomas
Title: Computational Mathematics with SageMath
Additional book information: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2018, xiv+464 pp., ISBN 978-1-611975-45-1, US$69.00

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: John B. Little
    Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science College of the Holy Cross
    Email: jlittle@holycross.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 515-521
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1690
    Published electronically: January 24, 2020
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2020 American Mathematical Society