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Author(s): M. Saito, B. Sturmfels and N. Takayama
Title: Gröbner deformations of hypergeometric differential equations
Additional book information: Springer, New York, 2000, viii+254 pp., $42.00, ISBN 3-540-66065-8


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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Mikhail Kapranov
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Email: kapranov@math.toronto.edu

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 481-488.

MSC (2000): Primary 13P10, 14Qxx, 16S32, 33Cxx, 34Exx, 35Axx, 68W30
PII: S 0273-0979(01)00915-6
Posted: June 12, 2001
Copyright of article: Copyright 2001, American Mathematical Society




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