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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: 1567696
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Book Information:

Authors: H. M. Srivastava and H. L. Manocha
Title: A treatise on generating functions
Additional book information: Halsted Press (Ellis Horwood Limited, Chichester), John Wiley and Sons, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, and Toronto, 1984, 569 pp., $89.95. ISBN 0-470-20010-3.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Per W. Karlsson
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 19 (1988), 346-348
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15669-8