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Author: John G. Papastavridis
Title: Analytical mechanics: A comprehensive treatise on the dynamics of constrained systems; for engineers, physicists and mathematicians
Additional book information: Oxford University Press, 2002, xxii + 1392 pp., ISBN 0-19-512697-1, $295.00$

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Jair Koiller
Email: jkoiller@fgv.br
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 405-419
Published electronically: April 9, 2003
Additional Notes: This research was supported in part by a CNPq fellowship
Review copyright: © Copyright 2003 American Mathematical Society