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MathSciNet review: 1568180
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Book Information:

Author: Pavel Exner Ji\v r\'\i \ Blank, and Miloslav Havl\'\i \v cek
Title: Hilbert space operators in quantum physics
Additional book information: American Institute of Physics Translation Series in Computational \& Applied Mathematical Physics, American Institute Physics, New York, 1994, xiii+593 pp., US$75.00. ISBN 1-56396-142-3.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: William G. Faris
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1995), 339-344
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00590-2