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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: 1567243
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Book Information:

Authors: V. Barbu and Th. Precupanu
Title: Convexity and optimization in Banach spaces
Additional book information: Sÿthoff & Noordhoff International Publishers, Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands, 1978, xi + 316 pp.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Leonard D. Berkovitz
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 479-482
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1980-14776-X