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MathSciNet review: 1567166
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Book Information:

Author: Martin Schechter
Title: Modern methods in partial differential equations, an introduction
Additional book information: McGraw-Hill, New York, 1977, xv + 245 pp.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Michael E. Taylor
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 661-667
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14653-6