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MathSciNet review: 1567320
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Book Information:

Authors: Mikhail S. Livshits [Moshe Livsic] and Artem A. Yantsevich
Title: Operator colligations in Hilbert spaces
Additional book information: Winston, Washington, D. C. (distributed by Wiley, New York), 1979, xii + 212 pp., $19.95.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Joseph A. Ball
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1981), 357-362
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1981-14915-6