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Author: Leonid L. Vaksman
Title: Quantum bounded symmetric domains
Additional book information Translations of Mathematical Monographs, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, Vol. 238, 2010, xii+256 pp., (hardcover) US $105.00, ISBN 978-0-8218-4909-5.

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Review Information

Reviewer: Erik Koelink
Affiliation: IMAPP, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen The Netherlands
Reviewer: Stefan Kolb
Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2012-01363-0
PII: S 0273-0979(2012)01363-0
Posted: January 9, 2012
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