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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: 1567168
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Book Information:

Authors: B. J. Birch, H. Halberstam and C. A. Rogers
Title: The collected works of Harold Davenport
Additional book information: Volumes I, II, III, and IV, Academic Press, London, New York, San Francisco, 1977, xxxiii + 1910 pp., $30.35, $29.35, $34.25, $20.35.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Emil Grosswald
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 668-675
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14657-3