1991 Mathematics Subject Classification


This is version 2.1 (April 1996) of a hypertext version of the MSC, prepared by Chris Eilbeck of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. If you have any comments regarding this implementation, please email the author (chris@ma.hw.ac.uk), quoting the version number. And in case you're wondering, he didn't type in all the 2647 hyperlinks himself, he wrote a Perl programme to process the index automatically. Version 2.1 corrects a bug in 2.0 where some links of the form "-XX" were incorrectly written as "-xx".

New to version 2 is a Key word search facility. Comments welcome!

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