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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: 1567854
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Book Information:

Author: Alexander D. Bruno
Title: Local methods in nonlinear differential equations
Additional book information: (Translated by William Hovingh and Courtney S. Coleman), Springer Series in Soviet Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1989, x + 348 pp., $119.00. ISBN 0-387-18926-2.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Philip Holmes
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 22 (1990), 339-343
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1990-15903-8