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Author(s): P. D. T. A. Elliott
Title: Arithmetic functions and integer products
Additional book information: Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol. 272, Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidelberg and Tokyo, 1985, xv + 461 pp., $64.00. ISBN 0-387-96094-5

Author(s): Paul J. McCarthy
Title: Introduction to arithmetical functions
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidelberg and Tokyo, 1986, vi+365 pp., $35.50. ISBN 0-387-96262-X

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Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 230-247.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15660-1
PII: S 0273-0979(1988)15660-1

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