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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 48, Number 2
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How can we construct abelian Galois extensions of basic number fields?
Barry Mazur PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 155-209
Recent progress on the quantum unique ergodicity conjecture
Peter Sarnak PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 211-228
Crystals, proteins, stability and isoperimetry
Misha Gromov PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 229-257
The evolution of geometric structures on 3-manifolds
Curtis T. McMullen PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 259-274

Mathematical Perspectives


About the cover: Isaac Newton, Fatio de Duillier, and Alchemy
Gerald L. Alexanderson PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 275-279
Selections Reprinted from Mathematical Reviews
Review information PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 281-284

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

Outer billiards on kites, by Richard Evan Schwartz.
Reviewer: Serge Tabachnikov
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 285-291
Fundamentals of stochastic filtering, by Alan Bain and Dan Crisan.
Reviewer: Pierre Del Moral
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 293-305
Classifying spaces of sporadic groups, by David J. Benson and Stephen D. Smith.
Reviewer: Bob Oliver
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 307-313
Groups of prime power order. Vol. 1 (with a foreword by Zvonimir Janko), by Yakov Berkovich.
Groups of prime power order. Vol. 2, by Yakov Berkovich and Zvonimir Janko.
Reviewer: C. R. Leedham-Green
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 315-323