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VOLUME 29
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BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
CONTENTS JULY 1993
Research-Expository Papers
“Theoretical Mathematics”: Toward a cultural synthesis of mathematics and theo-
retical physics by Arthur Jaffe and Frank Quinn
On the passage from local to global in number theory by B. Mazur
Research Announcements
Quasipositivity as an obstruction to sliceness by Lee Rudolph
A counterexample to Borsuk’s conjecture by Jeff Kahn and Gil Kalai
The genus-minimizing property of algebraic curves by P. B. Kronheimer
Average case complexity of linear multivariate problems by H. Wozniakowski ...
Adding handles to the helicoid by David Hoffman, Fusheng Wei, and Hermann
Karcher
Absence of Cantor spectrum for a class of Schrédinger operators by Norbert Riedel
Topological invariance of intersection lattices of arrangements in CP? by Tan Jiang
and Stephen S.-T. Yau
A counterexample to the rigidity conjecture for rings by Raymond C. Heitmann .
Book Reviews
Submodular functions and optimization theory by S. Fujishige—Reviewed by
Richard P. McLean and William W. Sharkey
Finite soluble groups by Klaus Doerk and Trevor Hawkes—Reviewed by Cheryl E.
Praeger
Topics in non-commutative geometry by Yuri I. Manin—Reviewed by Ivan Penkov
Algorithmic algebraic number theory by M. Pohst and H. Zassenhaus—Reviewed by
René Schoof
The cohomology of groups by Leonard Evens—Reviewed by Richard G. Swan....
Mathematical analysis and numerical methods for science and technology, Volume 5.
Evolution problems | by Robert Dautray and Jacques-Louis Lions—Reviewed
by Karen A. Ames
Topics in varieties of group representations by Samuel M. Vovsi—Reviewed by
Peter M. Neumann
Geometry of reflecting rays and inverse problems by V. M. Petkov and L. N.
Stoyanov—Reviewed by J. Sjdéstrand
Ergodic theorems for group actions by Arkady Tempelman—Reviewed by H. O.
Georgii
Combinatorics of train tracks by R. C. Penner with J. L. Harer—Reviewed by
W. Abikoff
The general theory of integration by Ralph Henstock—Reviewed by Robert G. Bartle
Multidimensional inverse scattering problems by Alexander G. Ramm—Reviewed
by Reese T. Prosser
Symmetries and Laplacians: Introduction to harmonic analysis, group representa-
tions and applications by David Gurarie—Reviewed by Audrey Terras
CONTENTS OCTOBER 1993
Research-Expository Papers
Iteration of meromorphic functions by Walter Bergweiler
Intersecting families of sets and the topology of cones in economics by
G. Chichilnisky
Research Announcements
Coupling and Harnack inequalities for Sierpinski carpets by Martin T. Barlow and
Richard F. Bass
Symmetry of tilings of the plane by Charles Radin
A linear construction for certain Kerdock and Preparata codes by A. R. Calderbank,
A. R. Hammons, Jr., P. Vijay Kumar, N. J. A. Sloane, and Patrick Solé ....
A new measure of growth for countable-dimensional algebras by John Hannah and
K. C. O’Meara
Harmonic analysis of fractal measures induced by representations of a certain C*-
algebra by Palle E. T. Jorgensen and Steen Pedersen
Stokes’ theorem for nonsmooth chains by Jenny Harrison
The Dinitz problem solved for rectangles by Jeannette C. M. Janssen
Trace formulae and inverse spectral theory for Schrodinger operators by
F. Gesztesy, H. Holden, B. Simon, and Z. Zhao
Book Reviews
Code recognition and set selection with neural networks by Clark Jeffries—Reviewed
by Morris W. Hirsch
Representations and cohomology, II: Cohomology of groups and modules by D. J.
Benson—Reviewed by J. E. Humphreys
Global classical solutions for nonlinear evolution equations by Li Ta-Tsien and Chen
Yunmei—Reviewed by Walter A. Strauss
Matching of asymptotic expansions of solutions of boundary value problems by
A. M. Ilin—Reviewed by Julian D. Cole
Complexity theory of real functions by Ker-] Ko—Reviewed by Marian Boykan
Pour-El
Pisot and Salem numbers by M. J. Bertin, A. Decomps-Guilloux, M. Grandet-Hugot,
M. Pathiaux-Delefosse, and J. P. Schreiber—Reviewed by M. Mendes France
Generalized hypergeometric functions by Bernard Dwork—Reviewed by Alan
Adolphson
Integral inequalities and applications by Drumi Bainov and Pavel Simeonov—
Reviewed by C. Corduneanu
Teichmiiller theory in Riemannian geometry by Anthony J. Tromba—Reviewed by
Michael Wolf
Manifolds with singularities and the Adams-Novikov spectral sequence by Boris I.
Botvinnik—Reviewed by Douglas C. Ravenel
Global properties of linear ordinary differential equations by Frantisek Neuman—
Reviewed by Anton Zettl
Groups, generators, syzygies, and orbits in invariant theory by V. L. Popov—
Reviewed by Gerald W. Schwarz
Kolmogorov spectra of turbulence I: Wave turbulence by V. E. Zakharov, V. S. Lvov,
and G. Falkovich—Reviewed by Alexandre J. Chorin
Sphere packings, lattices and groups by J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane—Reviewed
by C. A. Rogers