Irish Mathematical Society

Cumann Matamaitice na hÉireann

BULLETIN Number 34 Easter 1995

ISSN 0791-5578

Contents

• IMS Officers and Local Represenattives ...... ii
• Notes on Applying for IMS Nenbership ...... iii
• Minutes of IMS meeting 21.12.94 ................. 1
• Conference Announcements ......................... 4
• Science, Technology and Innovation ............ 8

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• Articles
• Products of Group Commutators ..
  ....... P. Hegarty & D. MacHale ....................... 14
• Translation Invariance ..
  ............ Eoin Coleman ..................................... 22
• A note on Minimal Infinite Subspaces of a Product Space ..
  ............ D. J. Marron & T. B. M. McMaster ... 26
• Matrices in Perfect Condition ..
  ............. David W. Lewis ................................ 30
• An Iteration related to Eisenstein's Criterion ..
  ............ Eugene Gath & Thomas J. Laffey ...... 35

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• Historical Article
• Joseph Wolstenholme, Leslie Stephen and `To the Lighthouse' ..
  ............ Rod Gow .......................................... 40

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• Research Announcements
• A uniformly convergent method for a singularly perturbed semilinear reaction-diffusion problem with nonunique solutions ... Guangfu Sun & Martin Stynes .. 47
• An almost fourth order uniformly convergent difference scheme for a semilinear sigularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problem ... Guangfu Sun & Martin Stynes .. 48
• Finite volume methods for convection-diffusion problems ... Martin Stynes .. 49

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• Book Reviews
• Dynamical Systems - Singularity Theory (ed. V. I. Arnold) ... C. Nash .... 50
• p-adic Numbers. An Introduction by Fernando Q. Gouvêa .... Brendan Goldsmith .... 72
• Bifurcation and Chaos (eds. R. Seydel, F. W. Schneider, H. Troger) ... Eugene Gath .... 74