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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: 1567294
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Book Information:

Author: W. Krabs
Title: Optimization and approximation
Additional book information: translated by Philip M. Anselone and Ronald B. Guenther, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester-New York-Brisbane-Toronto, 1979, xii + 220 pp., $28.95.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Charles K. Chui
    Reviewer: Joseph D. Ward
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 3 (1980), 1065-1069
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1980-14857-0