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MathSciNet review: 1567461
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Book Information:

Authors: G. G. Lorentz, K. Jetter and S. D. Riemenschneider
Title: Birkhoff interpolation
Additional book information: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 19, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1982, lv + 237 pp., $32.50. ISBN 0-2011-3518-3.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Eli Passow
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1983), 348-351
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15204-7