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Book Information:

Author: Yu. S. Il\cprime yashenko
Title: Finiteness theorems for limit cycles
Additional book information: Translations of Math. Monographs, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1991, 288 + ix pp., US$196.00. ISBN 0-8218-4553-5.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Carmen Chicone
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 123-130
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00329-X