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Authors: F. P. Gardiner and N. Lakic
Title: Quasiconformal Teichmüller theory
Additional book information: Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, vol. 76, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2000, xix + 372 pp., ISBN 0-8218-1983-6, $89.00$

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Irwin Kra
Affiliation: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Email: irwin@math.sunysb.edu