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MathSciNet review: 1567669
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Book Information:

Author: Jerome A. Goldstein
Title: Semigroups of linear operators and applications
Additional book information: Oxford Mathematical Monographs, Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, New York and Oxford, 1985, x + 245 pp., $42.50. ISBN 0-19-503540-2.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Ola Bratteli
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 100-103
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15621-2