Surveys in Contemporary Mathematics

Preface

1. Rank and determinant functions for matrices over semi-rings A. E. Guterman

2. Algebraic geometry over Lie algebras I. V. Kazachkov

3. Destabilization of closed braids A. V. Malyutin

4. n-dimensional local fields and adeles on n-dimensional schemes D. V. Osipov

5. Cohomology of face rings, and torus actions T. E. Panov

6. Three lectures on the Borsuk partition problem A. M. Raigorodskii

7. Embedding and knotting of manifolds in Euclidean spaces A. B. Skopenkov

8. On Maxwellian and Boltzmann distributions V. V. Ten.