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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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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1565879
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: C. Chevalley
Title: Theory of Lie groups
Additional book information: Princeton University Press, 1946. 232 pp. $2.75 (paper).

Author: E. J. McShane
Title: Integration
Additional book information: Princeton University Press, 1944. 402 pp. $2.95 (paper).

Author: H. A. Kramers
Title: Quantum mechanics
Additional book information: New York, Interscience, 1957. 16+496 pp. $12.50.

Author: G. E. Forsythe
Title: Bibliography of Russian mathematics books
Additional book information: New York, Chelsea, 1956. 106 pp. $3.95.

Title: Colloque sur la théorie des nombres
Additional book information: held at Brussels, December 1955. Paris, Masson, 1956. 208 pp. 2400 fr.

Author: J. Neyman
Title: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability
Additional book information: held at Berkeley, Calif., Dec. 1954 and July- Aug. 1955. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1956. 5 vols.

Review Information:

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1957), 418
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1957-10149-9