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BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
CONTENTS
Vol. 41, No. 1 January 2004
Bulletin Articles
Charles Pugh and Michael Shub, with an appendix by Alexander
Starkov, Stable ergodicity
Tauno Metsankyla, Catalan’s Conjecture: Another old Diophantine
problem solved
Stephen S. Gelbart and Stephen D. Miller, Riemann’s zeta function and
beyond
Book Reviews
Earl Taft (Reviewer), The concise handbook of algebra, edited by
Alexander V. Mikhalev and Giinter F. Pilz
Stephen J. DeCanio (Reviewer), Computation and complexity in economic
behavior and organization, by Kenneth R. Mount and Stanley
Reiter
Richard Moeckel (Reviewer), Classical and celestial mechanics, the Recife
lectures, edited by Hildeberto Cabral and Florin Diacu
David Goss (Reviewer), Number theory in function fields, by Michael
Rosen
Daniel S. Silver (Reviewer), Knots, by G. Burde and H. Zieschang; Algebraic
invariants of links, by Jonathan Hillman
Vol. 41, No. 2 April 2004
Bulletin Articles
David Eisenbud, Current events sessions
Edward Frenkel, Recent advances in the Langlands Program
Daniel Tataru, The wave maps equation
Benoit Perthame, Mathematical tools for kinetic equations
Book Reviews
Donald Dawson (Reviewer), Diffusions, superdiffusions and partial
differential equations, by E. B. Dynkin
Rostislav I. Grigorchuk (Reviewer), Subgroup growth, by Alexander
Lubotzky and Dan Segal
Michael Harris (Reviewer), Introduction to the Langlands program, edited
by J. Bernstein and S. Gelbart, with contributions by D. Bump, J. W.
Cogdell, D. Gaitsgory, E. de Shalit, E. Kowalski, and S. S. Kudla ....
Robert F. Brown (Reviewer), Fixed point theory, by Andrzej Granas
and James Dugundji
Vol. 41, No. 3 July 2004
Bulletin Articles
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, René Thom: “Mathématicien et apprenti
philosophe”
David Ruelle, Application of hyperbolic dynamics to physics: Some
problems and conjectures
Steve Simale and Ding-Xuan Zhou, Shannon sampling and function
reconstruction from point values
B. Mazur, Perturbations. deformations. and variations (and “near-misses” )
in geometry, physics, and number theory
Michael Atiyah, The impact of Thom’s cobordism theory
Dennis Sullivan, René Thom’s work on geometric homology and
bordism
Book Reviews
Juan J. Morales-Ruiz (Reviewer), Galois theory of linear differential
equations, by Marius van der Put and Michael Singer
Susan Landau (Reviewer), RSA and Public-Key Cryptography, by Richard
Mollin: Introduction to Cryptography, by Hans Delfs and Helmut Knebl;
Cryptography: Theory and Practice, by Douglas Stinson; Algebraic
Aspects of Cryptography, by Neal Koblitz; Elliptic Curves: Number
Theory and Cryptography, by Lawrence Washington; Elliptic Curves
in Cryptography, by Ian Blake, Gadiel Seroussi, and Nigel Smart;
Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs, and Pseudorandomness, by
Oded Goldreich; Foundations of Cryptography: Basic Tools, by Oded
Goldreich; The Design of Rijndael: AES the Advanced Encryption
Standard, by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen; Handbook of Applied
Cryptography, by Alfred Menezes, Paul van Oorschot, and Scott
Vanstone
J. P. C. Greenlees (Reviewer), Homotopy theoretic methods in group
cohomology, by W. G. Dwyer and H.-W. Henn
Jean-Pierre Kahane (Reviewer). Trigonometric series, Vols. I, Il, by Antoni
Zygmund
John T. Baldwin (Reviewer), Finite structures with few types, by Gregory
Cherlin and Ehud Hrushovski
Alexander Barvinok (Reviewer), Discrete convex analysis, by Kazuo
Murota
Donald Sarason (Reviewer), Hankel operators and their applications, by
Vladimir V. Peller
Vol. 41, No. 4 October 2004
Bulletin Articles
Lawrence C. Evans, A survey of entropy methods for partial differential
equations
Gunnar Aronsson, Michael G. Crandall, and Petri Juutinen, A tour
of the theory of absolutely minimizing functions
Henk W. Broer, KAM theory: The legacy of Kolmogorov’s 1954 paper
Book Reviews
Norbert Steinmetz (Reviewer), Painlevé differential equations in
complex plane, by V. I. Gromak, I. Laine, and S. Shimomura
Gabriele Nebe (Reviewer), Perfect lattices in Euclidean spaces, by Jacques
Martinet
Nik Weaver (Reviewer), State spaces of operator algebras: Basic theory,
orientations, and C*-products, by Erik M. Alfsen and Frederic W.
Shultz; Geometry of state spaces of operator algebras, by Erik M. Alfsen
and Frederic W. Shultz
Martin Schechter (Reviewer), Spectral theory of linear operators—and
spectral systems in Banach algebras, by Vladimir Miiller
Edward Nelson (Reviewer), Gnomes in the fog: The reception of Brouwer’s
intuitionism in the 1920s, by Dennis E. Hesseling
H. L. Smith (Reviewer), Spatial ecology via reaction-diffusion equations, by
R. S. Cantrell and C. Cosner
James Sneyd (Reviewer). Nonlinear dynamics in physiology and medicine,
edited by A. Beuter, L. Glass, M. C. Mackey. and M.S. Titcombe ... 559