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Author(s): Aizik I. Volpert, Vitaly A. Volpert, and Vladimir A. Volpert
Title: Traveling wave solutions of parabolic systems
Additional book information: Transl. Math. Monographs, vol. 140, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1994, xii + 448 pp., US$142.00. ISBN 0-8218-4609-4


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Reviewer(s):
Robert Gardner

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1995), 446-452.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00607-5
PII: S 0273-0979(1995)00607-5




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