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Book Review

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Book Information:

Author: John Milnor
Title: Dynamics in one complex variable, Introductory lectures
Additional book information: 2nd edition, Vieweg Verlag, Weisbaden, 2000, vii+257 pp., ISBN 3-528-13130-6

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Review Information:

Reviewer: John Hubbard
Affiliation: Cornell University
Email: jhh8@cornell.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 495-498
Published electronically: June 12, 2001
Review copyright: © Copyright 2001 American Mathematical Society