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Contents of Volume 83, Number 5
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 83, Number 5 (1977)
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977)
Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 83, Number 5 (1977)
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Invariant differential equations on homogeneous manifolds
Sigurdur Helgason PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 751-774
Topological dynamics
William A. Veech PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 775-830
Iterated path integrals
Kuo-Tsai Chen PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 831-879
Stochastic time evolution of one dimensional infinite particle systems
Frank Spitzer PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 880-890
Coefficients of univalent functions
Peter L. Duren PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 891-911
Applications of analysis on nilpotent groups to partial differential equations
G. B. Folland PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 912-930
Covering smooth homotopies of orbit spaces
Gerald W. Schwarz PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1028-1030
Central simple algebras with involution
Louis Halle Rowen PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1031-1032
The existence of minimal immersions of two-spheres
J. Sacks and K. Uhlenbeck PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1033-1036
Representing homology classes by embedded circles and the existence of circles invariant under isometries
William H. Meeks III PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1037-1038
The existence and uniqueness of a simple group generated by $\left \{ {3,4} \right \}$ - transpositions
Jeffrey S. Leon and Charles C. Sims PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1039-1040
Torsion in the homology of $H$-spaces
Richard Kane PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1041-1042
The number of solutions to the classical Plateau problem is generically finite
R. Böhme and A. J. Tromba PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1043-1044
Unique continuation theorems for solutions of partial differential equations
M. S. Baouendi and E. C. Zachmanoglou PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1045-1048
Unicity of best $L_2$ approximation by second-order splines with variable knots
D. L. Barrow, C. K. Chui, P. W. Smith and J. D. Ward PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1049-1050
Parallel vector fields and the topology of manifolds
Leon Karp PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1051-1053
Subadditive stochastic processes
Michael D. Smeltzer PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1054-1056
Quotients of $C\left [ {0,1} \right ]$ with separable dual
Dale E. Alspach PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1057-1059
Bifurcation of periodic orbits on manifolds, and Hamiltonian systems
M. Bottkol PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1060-1062
Classification of involutive Banach-Lie-algebras
K. P. Hanscombe PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1063-1065
Tight and taut embeddings and projective transformation
C.-S. Chen PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1066-1068
Optimization of the norm of the Lagrange interpolation operator
T. A. Kilgore PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1069-1071
Hilbert’s twelfth problem and $L$-series
H. M. Stark PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1072-1074
Stokes phenomena
Yasutaka Sibuya PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1075-1077
Amenable ergodic actions, hyperfinite factors, and Poincaré flows
Robert J. Zimmer PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1078-1080

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

Knots and links, by Dale Rolfsen.
Reviewer: Lee P. Neuwirth
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 931-935
Ordinary differential equations in the complex domain, by Einar Hille.
Reviewer: Yasutaka Sibuya
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 935-939
Techniques of multivariate calculation, by Roger H. Farrell.
Reviewer: Morris L. Eaton
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 939-941
Entire holomorphic mappings in one and several complex variables, by Phillip A. Griffiths.
Reviewer: David Drasin
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 942-946
Fuzzy sets and their applications to cognitive and decision processes, by L. A. Zadeh, K.-S. Fu, K. Tanaka and M. Shimura.
Introduction to the theory of fuzzy subsets. Volume I, by A. Kaufmann.
Applications of fuzzy sets to systems analysis, by C. V. Negoiţă and D. A. Ralescu.
Reviewer: Michael A. Arbib
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 946-951
Etude géométrique des espaces vectoriels, une introduction, by Jacques Bair and René Fourneau.
Reviewer: M. M. Day
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 951-954
Model theoretic algebra: Selected topics, by Greg Cherlin.
Reviewer: Paul C. Eklof
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 954-958
Pattern synthesis, lectures in pattern recognition, Volume 1, by U. Grenander.
Reviewer: A. L. Loeb
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 958-960
Spectral synthesis, by John J. Benedetto.
Reviewer: Kenneth A. Ross
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 960-964
The theory of approximate methods and their application to the numerical solution of singular integral equations, by V. V. Ivanov.
Reviewer: D. H. Hyers
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 964-967
Reviewer: J. L. Gastwirth
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 967-973
Representations of real numbers by infinite series, by János Galambos.
Reviewer: Bodo Volkmann
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 973-976
Ernst Edward Kummer, Collected Papers, by André Weil.
Reviewer: Barry Mazur
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 976-988
Introduction to statistical time series, by Wayne A. Fuller.
Reviewer: E. J. Hannan
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 989-992
Rational methods in Lie algebras, by George B. Seligman.
Reviewer: J. E. Humphreys
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 993-997
Differential topology, by Morris W. Hirsch.
Reviewer: I. M. James
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 997-998
The Hopf bifurcation and its applications, by J. E. Marsden and M. McCracken.
Reviewer: Nicholas D. Kazarinoff
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 998-1004
Character theory of finite groups, by I. Martin Isaacs.
Reviewer: Charles W. Curtis
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1005-1007
Mathematical logic, by J. Donald Monk.
Reviewer: Martin Davis
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1007-1011
Connections, curvature, and cohomology. Vol. I: de Rham cohomology of manifolds and vector bundles, by Werner Greub, Stephen Halperin and Ray Vanstone.
Connections, curvature, and cohomology. Vol. II: Lie groups, principal bundles, and characteristic classes, by Werner Greub, Stephen Halperin and Ray Vanstone.
Connections, curvature, and cohomology. Vol. III: Cohomology of principal bundles and homogeneous spaces, by Werner Greub, Stephen Halperin and Ray Vanstone.
Reviewer: H. Samelson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1011-1015
Applications of sieve methods to the theory of numbers, by C. Hooley.
Reviewer: A. Good
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1015-1021
Abstract analytic number theory, by John Knopfmacher.
Reviewer: A. Good
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1021-1027