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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: 1568069
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Bernard Dwork
Title: Generalized hypergeometric functions
Additional book information: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991, 188 pp. US$63.00. ISBN 0-19-853565-8.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Alan Adolphson
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 279-282
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00419-1