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Author(s):
Oliver Knill
Title:
Jürgen Moser, selected chapters in the calculus of variations
Additional book information:
Birkhäuser Verlag,
Basel-Boston-Berlin,
2003,
iv+132,
EUR 25.68,
3-7643-2185-7
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Victor
Bangert
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut der Universität Freiburg
Email:
bangert@email.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
42
(2005),
245-249.
MSC
(2000):
Primary 49-02, 37J50, 37E40, 53C22, 53D25
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-05-01044-X
PII:
S 0273-0979(05)01044-X
Posted:
January 12, 2005
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2005,
American Mathematical Society
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