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Book Information:

Author: Athanase Papadopoulos
Title: Metric spaces, convexity, and nonpositive curvature
Additional book information: European Math. Soc., Zürich, 2005, xii + 287 pp., ISBN 3-03719-010-8, EUR 48.00

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Stephen Semmes
    Affiliation: Rice University
    Email: semmes@rice.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (2006), 435-438
    Published electronically: April 19, 2006
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2006 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.