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Author: W. V. Petryshyn
Title: Generalized topological degree and semilinear equations
Additional book information: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, vol. 117, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, x+240 pp., ISBN 0-521-44474-8, $59.95$

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Jean Mawhin
    Affiliation: Université Catholique de Louvain
    Email: mawhin@amm.ucl.ac.be
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 197-201
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-97-00716-7
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society