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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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Book Information:

Authors: Jacques Faraut and Adam Koranyi
Title: Analysis on symmetric cones
Additional book information: Oxford University Press, London and New York, 1994, xii + 382 pp., ISBN 0-198-53477-9, $85.00$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Kenneth I. Gross
    Affiliation: University of Vermont
    Email: gross@emba.uvm.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 35 (1998), 77-86
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-98-00733-2
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1998 American Mathematical Society