Book Reviews

Book Reviews

B. J. Alder, Editor. Special Purpose Computers. Academic Press. 1988, 282 pp., $49.95.

D. R. Bland. Wave Theory and Applications. Clarendon Press. 1988, 317 pp., hardback £40, paperback £.15.

S. Caenepeel and F. Van Oystaeyen Brauer Groups and the Cohomology of Graded Rings. Marcel Dekker. 1988, 261 pp., 107.50.

G. F. Carrier and C. E. Pearson. Partial Differential Equations Theory and Technique. Academic Press. 1988, 340 pp., $39.95.

D. V. Chudnovsky and G. V. Chudnovsky Editors. Search Theory: Some Recent Developments. Marcel Dekker. 1989, 155 pp., $107.50.

R. Durrett. Lecture Notes on Particle Systems and Percolation. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole. 1988, 335 pp., $39.95.

D. H. Griffel Linear Algebra and its Applications: Volume 1, A First Course. Ellis Horwood. 1989, 289 pp., £16.95.

S. P. Gudder. Quantum Probability. Academic Press. 1988, 316 pp., $49.50.

M. Hervé. Several Complex Variables: Local Theory, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. 1987, 148 pp., £8.95.

K. Ito and N. Ikeda, Editors. Probabilistic Methods in Mathematical Physics; Proceedings of the Katata and Kyoto Symposia: 1985. Academic Press.1988, 441 pp., $59.50.

G. Karpilovsky. Field theory: Classical Foundations and Multiplicative Groups. Marcel Dekker. 1988, 550 pp., $119.50.

P. Pelcé Editor. Dynamics of Curved Fronts. Academic Press. 1988, 514 pp., $69.50.

G. Sewell. The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Equations. Academic Press. 1988, 271 pp., $39.95.

J. S. Walker. Fourier Analysis. Oxford University Press. 1988, 440 pp., £40.

N. R. Wallach. Real Reductive Groups I. Academic Press. 1988, 412 pp., $59.95.

W. D. Wallis. Combinatorial Designs. Marcel Dekker. 1988, 323 pp., $107.50.

W. Wieslaw. Topological Fields. Marcel Dekker. 1988, 309 pp., $119.50.