<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Does anyone understand the following error message (copied from my console)<DIV>**********************************************************************************************</DIV><DIV>This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.5.5)</DIV><DIV>The top-level auxiliary file: History of the Shift.aux</DIV><DIV>The style file: amsalpha.bst</DIV><DIV>Database file #1: DynamicsHistory.bib</DIV><DIV>Unbalanced braces---line 1 of file DynamicsHistory.bib</DIV><DIV> : @string{jmath ="Journal de Math{\'e}matiques''</DIV><DIV> :                                               }</DIV><DIV>I'm skipping whatever remains of this command</DIV><DIV>(There was 1 error message)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>************************************************************************************************</DIV><DIV>when I tried to bibtex the following?</DIV><DIV>**************************************************************************************************</DIV><DIV>@string{jmath ="Journal de Math{\'e}matiques''}</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>@article{Hadamard:neg,</DIV><DIV>author = {Jacques Hadamard},</DIV><DIV>title = {Les surfaces {\`a} courbures oppos{\'e}es et leur lignes geodesiques},</DIV><DIV>journal = jmath, volume={4}, series={5},year={1898}, pages={27-73},</DIV><DIV>note={Reprinted in \cite[vol. 2, pp. 729-775]{Hadamard:Collected}}</DIV><DIV>}</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>@book{Hadamard:Collected,</DIV><DIV>author = {Jacques Hadamard},</DIV><DIV>title = {Oeuvres de Jacques Hadamard},</DIV><DIV>publisher={Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique},</DIV><DIV>year={1968}</DIV><DIV>}</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>***************************************************************************************************<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Zbigniew Nitecki</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Department of Mathematics</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Tufts University</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Medford, MA 02155</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">telephones:</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Office<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab">   <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>(617)627-3843</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Dept.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab">   <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>(617)627-3234</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Dept. fax<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab">   <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>(617)627-3966</FONT></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>