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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: 1567429
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Book Information:

Authors: N. D. Birrell and P. C. W. Davies
Title: Quantum fields in curved space
Additional book information: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics, vol. 7, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1982, ix + 340 pp., $49.50. ISBN 0-5212-3385-2.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Bent Ørsted
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 471-477
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15124-8