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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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MathSciNet review: 3307765
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Book Information:

Author: Dmitry Panchenko
Title: The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model
Additional book information: Springer Monographs in Mathematics, Springer, New York, 2013, xii+156 pp., ISBN 978-1-4614-6288-0

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Francesco Guerra
    Affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma Roma, Italy
    Email: francesco.guerra@roma1.infn.it
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 52 (2015), 135-139
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2014-01464-8
    Published electronically: August 15, 2014
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2014 American Mathematical Society