Walter Bloom

A principal source of published information on Australian numismatics has been the Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia published by the Association, while that for New Zealand is the New Zealand Numismatic Journal published by the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand...

The interest in medals in Australia and New Zealand continues to be strong, and as might be expected, by and large the writers concentrate on the medals of their own country...

A principal source of published information on Australian numismatics has been the Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia published by the Association, while that for New Zealand is the New Zealand Numismatic Journal published by the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand…

In this part of the world the research activity on medals is reasonably evenly split between Australia and New Zealand.

As in previous years almost all of the research on the ethnographic currency of Oceania has been based in Germany, and in particular connected with the Museum of History of Money in Cologne under the directorship of Mr Thomas LAUTZ...

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Positive definite functions have played an important role in harmonic analysis and probability theory on a variety of algebraic-topological structures. In this paper we study the relationships between various definitions of positive definiteness for hypergroups, and compare the theorems of Bochner and Levy in the commutative case.

The work for this paper was partly carried out while the first author held an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the University of Tübingen.

Let G be a locally compact Hausdorff group with left Haar measure...