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Author: Bernadette Perrin-Riou
Title: $p$-Adic $L$-functions and $p$-adic representations
Additional book information: translated by Leila Schneps, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2000, xx + 150 pp., ISBN 0-8218-1946-1, $49.00$

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Karl Rubin
Affiliation: Stanford University
Email: rubin@math.stanford.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 557-562
Published electronically: April 15, 2002
Review copyright: © Copyright 2002 American Mathematical Society