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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: 1567557
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Book Information:

Author: Erik Vanmarcke
Title: Random fields: analysis and synthesis
Additional book information: MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1983, xii + 382 pp., $45.00. ISBN 0-262-22026-1.

Author: M. I. Yadrenko
Title: Spectral theory of random fields
Additional book information: Optimization Software, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1983, iii + 259 pp., $24.00. ISBN 0-911575-00-6.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Simeon M. Berman
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 13 (1985), 57-62
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1985-15363-7