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

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 3443951
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Book Information:

Author: Francesco Maggi
Title: Sets of finite perimeter and geometric variational problems. An introduction to geometric measure theory
Additional book information: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Vol. 135, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012, xvii+454 pp., ISBN 978-1-107-02103-7, US $89.99

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Alex Iosevich
    Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester
    Email: iosevich@math.rochester.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 (2016), 167-171
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1495
    Published electronically: June 10, 2015
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2015 American Mathematical Society