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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: 1568033
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Book Information:

Author: Herbert Stahl and Vilmos Totik
Title: General orthogonal polynomials
Additional book information: Encyclopaedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol.\ 43, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992, 250 pp., US$59.95. ISBN 0-521-41534-9.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: D. S. Lubinsky
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 403-408
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00374-4