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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567028
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Book Information:

Authors: Arunava Mukherjea and Nicholas A. Tserpes
Title: Measures on topological semigroups : Convolution products and random walks
Additional book information: Lecture Notes in Math., no. 547, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1976, iv + 197 pp., $10.20.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Murray Rosenblatt
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 104-107
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14422-X