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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)

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Contents of Volume 27, Number 1
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User’s guide to viscosity solutions of second order partial differential equations
Michael G. Crandall, Hitoshi Ishii and Pierre-Louis Lions PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 1-67
Galois theory on the line in nonzero characteristic
Shreeram S. Abhyankar PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 68-133
One cannot hear the shape of a drum
Carolyn Gordon, David L. Webb and Scott Wolpert PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 134-138
A class of nonsymmetric harmonic Riemannian spaces
Ewa Damek and Fulvio Ricci PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 139-142
The Green function of Teichmüller spaces with applications
Samuel L. Krushkal PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 143-147
Rational function certification of multisum/integral/“$q$” identities
Herbert S. Wilf and Doron Zeilberger PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 148-153
Generalizing the hyperbolic collar lemma
Ara Basmajian PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 154-158
A counterexample to the Arakelyan conjecture
A. Erëmenko PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 159-164
A classification of the stable type of $BG$
John Martino and Stewart Priddy PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 165-170

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

Spectral theory of families of self-adjoint operators, by Yu. S. Samoilenko.
Reviewer: Alfredo Octavio
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 171-174
Lagrangian manifolds and the Maslov operator, by V. E. Shatalov A. S. Mishchenko, and B. Yu. Sternin.
Reviewer: J. J. Duistermaat
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 174-179
Connections, definite forms and four-manifolds, by T. Petrie and J. Randall.
Reviewer: Robert E. Gompf
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 179-183
Degeneration of Abelian Varieties, by Gerd Faltings and Ching-Li Chai.
Reviewer: Michael Raynaud
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 183-189
Algebraic ideas in ergodic theory, by Klaus Schmidt.
Reviewer: J. Feldman
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 189-191
Topics in matrix analysis, by Roger A. Horn and Charles R. Johnson.
Reviewer: Marvin Marcus
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 191-198
Discrete subgroups of semisimple Lie groups, by G. A. Margulis.
Reviewer: Robert J. Zimmer
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 198-203
Symmetric and G-algebras (with applications to group representations), by Gregory Karpilovsky.
Reviewer: Morton E. Harris
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 203-204
Errata to Holomorphic Hilbert modular forms, by Paul Garrett.
Reviewer: Michael Harris
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 204-205