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Book Information:

Authors: Colin Christopher and Chengzhi Li
Title: Limit cycles of differential equations
Additional book information: Advanced Courses in Mathematics, CRM Barcelona, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 2007, viii+171 pp., ISBN 978-3-7643-8409-8

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    • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Freddy Dumortier
    Affiliation: Hasselt University
    Email: freddy.dumortier@uhasselt.be
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (2009), 697-701
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01267-1
    Published electronically: June 24, 2009
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2009 American Mathematical Society