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Author(s): Oliver Knill
Title: Jürgen Moser, selected chapters in the calculus of variations
Additional book information: Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel-Boston-Berlin, 2003, iv+132 pp., EUR 25.68, ISBN 3-7643-2185-7


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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Victor Bangert
Affiliation: Mathematisches Institut der Universität Freiburg
Email: bangert@email.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 245-249.

MSC (2000): Primary 49-02, 37J50, 37E40, 53C22, 53D25
PII: S 0273-0979(05)01044-X
Posted: January 12, 2005
Copyright of article: Copyright 2005, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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