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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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Mathematical Perspectives
Selections Reprinted from Mathematical Reviews

Review information
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (2022), 611-615PDF
Published electronically: August 17, 2022

On $3N$ points in a plane by B. J. Birch
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 55, (1959), 289–293
MR Number: 0109315 (22 #201)
Reviewed by: P. C. Hammer

The upper bound conjecture and Cohen-Macaulay rings by Richard P. Stanley
Studies in Applied Mathematics 54, (1975), no. 2, 135–142
MR Number: 0458437 (56 #16640)
Reviewed by: P. McMullen

A generalization of Carathéodory’s theorem by Imre Bárány
Discrete Mathematics 40, (1982), no. 2–3, 141–152
MR Number: 0676720 (84c:52014)
Reviewed by: Marilyn Breen

Theory of convex structures by M. L. J. van de Vel
1993, xvi+540, ISBN 0-444-81505-8, $157.25
MR Number: 1234493
North-Holland Mathematical Library, 50, North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam,
Reviewed by: Jean-Paul Doignon

Transversal numbers for hypergraphs arising in geometry by Noga Alon and Gil Kalai
Advances in Applied Mathematics 29, (2002), no. 1, 79–101
MR Number: 1921545 (2003g:52004)
Reviewed by: Jenő Lehel

The discrete yet ubiquitous theorems of Carathéodory, Helly, Sperner, Tucker, and Tverberg by Jesús A. De Loera, Xavier Goaoc and Frédéric Meunier
American Mathematical Society. Bulletin. New Series 56, (2019), no. 3, 415–511
MR Number: 3974609
Reviewed by: Mircea Balaj

A mélange of diameter Helly-type theorems by Travis Dillon and Pablo Soberón
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 35, (2021), no. 3, 1615–1627
MR Number: 4287348
Reviewed by: Jenő Lehel

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (2022), 611-615
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