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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 47, Number 1
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On the problem of resolution of singularities in positive characteristic (Or: A proof we are still waiting for)
Herwig Hauser
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 1-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01274-9
Published electronically: October 28, 2009
Frontiers of reality in Schubert calculus
Frank Sottile
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 31-71
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01276-2
Published electronically: November 2, 2009
Taubes’s proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three
Michael Hutchings
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 73-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01282-8
Published electronically: October 29, 2009

Mathematical Perspectives


Reflections and prospectives
J. Glimm
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 127-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01279-8
Published electronically: October 14, 2009
The Cover of this Issue
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 137-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01290-7
Published electronically: November 3, 2009
Von Neumann’s comments about existence and uniqueness for the initial-boundary value problem in gas dynamics
Denis Serre
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 139-144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01286-5
Published electronically: October 15, 2009
Discussion on the existence and uniqueness or multiplicity of solutions of the aerodynamical equations
Chairman: Dr. J. von Neumann
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 145-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01281-6
Published electronically: October 15, 2009
Selections Reprinted from Mathematical Reviews
Review information
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 155-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01283-X
Published electronically: October 1, 2009

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

Fractals and universal spaces in dimension theory, by Stephen Leon Lipscomb.
Reviewer: G. A. Edgar
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 163-170
Degenerate diffusions, by Panagiota Daskalopoulos and Carlos E. Kenig.
Reviewer: D. G. Aronson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 171-176
The birth of model theory: Löwenheim’s theory in the frame of the theory of relatives, by Calixto Badesa.
Reviewer: John T. Baldwin
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 177-185