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Book Information:

Author: George Greaves
Title: Sieves in number theory
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, xii+304 pp., ISBN 3-540-41647-1, 94.95 euros

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Heini Halberstam
Affiliation: University of Illinois
Email: heini@math.uiuc.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 109-119
Published electronically: October 17, 2002
Review copyright: © Copyright 2002 American Mathematical Society