Bulletin New Series of the American Mathematical Society 2001: Vol 38 Table of Contents

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BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
CONTENTS
Vol. 38, No. 1 January 2001
Research-Expository Surveys
Urmie Ray, Generalized Kac-Moody algebras and some related topics ....
Brian C. Hall, Harmonic analysis with respect to heat kernel measure ....
Book Reviews
Uta C. Merzbach (Reviewer), James Joseph Sylvester: Life and work in
letters by Karen Hunger Parshall
Melvin Hochster (Reviewer), Multiplicities and Chern classes in local
algebra by Paul C. Roberts
Wendell H. Fleming (Reviewer), Extending H,. control to nonlinear
systems by J. W. Helton and M. R. James
Jacques Thévenaz (Reviewer), On the local structure of Morita and Rickard
equivalences between Brauer blocks by Lluis Puig
Ezra Getzler (Reviewer), Frobenius manifolds, quantum cohomology, and
moduli spaces by Yuri 1. Manin
Miles Reid (Reviewer), Rational curves on algebraic varieties by Janos
M. Ram Murty (Reviewer), Elementary methods in number theory by
Melvyn B. Nathanson
Vol. 38, No. 2 April 2001
Bulletin Articles
I. M. James, Portrait of Alexander (1888-1971)
Shreeram S. Abhyankar, Resolution of singularities and modular Galois
theory
J. T. Stafford and M. Van den Bergh, Noncommutative curves and
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Book Reviews
Brayton Gray (Reviewer), Simplicial homotopy theory by Paul G. Goerss
and John F. Jardine
Margaret Robinson (Reviewer), An introduction to the theory of local zeta
functions by Jun-ichi Igusa
Dave Auckly (Reviewer), 4-manifolds and Kirby calculus by Robert Gompf
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Helmut V6lklein (Reviewer), Inverse Galois theory by G. Malle and B. H.
Matzat
John McCleary (Reviewer), Rings, modules, and algebras in stable
homotopy theory by A. D. Elmendorf, I. Kriz, M. A. Mandell, and
J. P. May, with an appendix by M. Cole; Equivariant homotop., and
cohomology theory by J. P. May, with contributions by M. Cole,
G. Comezana, S$. Costenoble, A. D. Elmendorf, J. P. C. Greenlees,
L. G. Lewis, Jr., R. J. Piacenza, G. Triantafillou, and S. Waner; A
concise course in algebraic topology by J. P. May
Josef Dorfmeister (Reviewer), Harmonic maps, loop groups, and integrable
systems by M. A. Guest
Irwin Kra (Reviewer), Quasiconformal Teichmiiller theory by F. P. Gardiner
and N. Lakic
Yujiro Kawamata (Reviewer), Birational geometry of algebraic varieties
by Janos Kollar and Shigefumi Mori, with the collaboration of C. H.
Clemens and A. Corti
Vol. 38, No. 3 July 2001
Bulletin Articles
Ole Christensen, Frames, Riesz bases, and discrete Gabor/wavelet
expansions
Eknath Ghate and Eriko Hironaka, The arithmetic and geometry of
Salem numbers
Ronald Solomon, A brief history of the classification of the finite simple
groups
Book Reviews
Karsten Grove (Reviewer), Metric structures for Riemannian and non-
Riemannian spaces by M. Gromov
Ranjan Roy (Reviewer), Complex analysis, fundamentals of the classical
theory of functions by John Stalker
Vaughan F. R. Jones (Reviewer), Quantum symmetries on operator
algebras by D. Evans and Y. Kawahigashi
Robert Gross (Reviewer), Diophantine geometry: An introduction by Marc
Hindry and Joseph H. Silverman
Harm Derksen (Reviewer), Classical invariant theory by Peter Olver
Vol. 38, No. 4 October 2001
Bulletin Articles
Pierre Cartier, A mie day’s work: From Grothendieck to Connes and
Kontsevich The evolution of concepts of space and symmetry
Janos Kollar, Which are the simplest algebraic varieties? .................
Philippe Biane, Jim Pitman, and Marc Yor, Probability laws
related to the Jacobi theta and Riemann zeta functions, and Brownian
excursions
Book Reviews
Igor Dolgachev (Reviewer), The geometry of schemes by David Eisenbud
and Joe Harris
Alexander Lubotzky (Reviewer), Profinite groups by J. S. Wilson; Profinite
groups by L. Ribes and P. Zalesskii; Analytic pro-p groups by J. D.
Dixon, M. P. F. du Sautoy, A. Mann, and D. Segal; New horizons in
pro-p groups by M. du Sautoy, D. Segal, and A. Shalen (eds.)
Mikhail Kapranov (Reviewer), Grébner deformations of hypergeometric
differential equations by M. Saito, B. Sturmfels, and N. Takayama
Louis H. Kauffman (Reviewer), Quantum fields and strings: A course for
mathematicians, Volumes 1 and 2 by Pierre Deligne, Pavel Etingof,
Daniel S. Freed, Lisa C. Jeffrey, David Kazhdan, John W. Morgan,
David R. Morrison, and Edward Witten (eds.)
John Hubbard (Reviewer), Dynamics in one complex variable, Introductory
lectures by John Milnor
Bhama Srinivasan, Note from the book reviews editor