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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: 1567065
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Book Information:

Author: J. R. Higgins
Title: Completeness and basis properties of sets of special functions
Additional book information: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, no. 72, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne, 1977, x + 134 pp., $19.95.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: R. P. Boas
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 642-645
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14508-X