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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: 1567940
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Book Information:

Author: Michael Beals
Title: Propagation and interaction of singularities in nonlinear hyperbolic problems
Additional book information: Birkhäuser, Basel, 1989, 143 pp., $29.00. ISBN 3-8176-3449-5.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Jeffrey Rauch
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 (1991), 157-162
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1991-16053-2