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Author(s): Milan Medved, translated from Slovak by J. Hajnovicova and D. Halasova
Title: Fundamentals of dynamical systems and bifurcation theory
Additional book information: Adam Hilger, Bristol, Philadelphia, and New York, 1992, viii\,+\,293 pp., US$66.00. ISBN 0-7503-0150-3


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Reviewer(s):
J\"urgen Scheurle

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (1994), 142-146.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00501-4
PII: S 0273-0979(1994)00501-4


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