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

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1568104
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Book Information:

Author: Igor E. Shparlinski
Title: Computational and algorithmic problems in finite fields
Additional book information: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, and London, 1992, 240 pp., US$118.00. ISBN 0-7923-2057-3.

Author: G. L. Mullen R. Lidl, and G. Turnwald
Title: Dickson polynomials
Additional book information: Longman Scientific \& Technical, Harlow, 1993, 207 pp., US$95.00. ISBN 0-582-091195.

Author: Charles Small
Title: Arithmetic of finite fields
Additional book information: Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, Basel, and Hong Kong, 1991, 216 pp., US$99.75. ISBN 0-8247-8526-6.

Author: G. L. Mullen and P. J.-S. Shiue
Title: Finite fields, coding theory, and advances in communications and computing
Additional book information: Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, Basel, and Hong Kong, 1993, 443 pp., US$145.00. ISBN 0-8247-8805-2.

Author: Dieter Jungnickel
Title: Finite fields: structure and arithmetics
Additional book information: Wissenschafts\-verlag, Mannheim, Leipzig, Wien, and Z\"urich, 1993, 339 pp., Sch 609. ISBN 3-411-16111-6.

Author: Alfred J. Menezes
Title: Applications of finite fields
Additional book information: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, and London, 1993, 218 pp., US$72.00. ISBN 0-7923-9282-5.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Daqing Wan
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 30 (1994), 284-290
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00466-5