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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1568054
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Book Information:

Author: David Gurarie
Title: Symmetries and Laplacians: Introduction to harmonic analysis, group representations and applications
Additional book information: North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1992, vii+453 pp., $128.50. ISBN 0444 886 125.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Audrey Terras
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 144-149
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00408-7