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Author(s):
Alan Baker
Title:
Transcendental number theory
Additional book information:
Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1975, x + 147 pp., $13.95
Author(s):
Kurt Mahler
Title:
Lectures on transcendental numbers
Additional book information:
Edited and completed by B. Diviš and W. J. LeVeque, Lecture Notes in Math., no. 546, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1976, xxi + 254 pp., $10.20
Author(s):
Michel Waldschmidt
Title:
Nombres transcendants
Additional book information:
Lecture Notes in Math., no. 402, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1974, viii + 277 pp., $10.30
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Kenneth B.
Stolarsky
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
84
(1978),
1370-1378.
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14584-4
PII:
S 0002-9904(1978)14584-4
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