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

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    • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Victor Bangert
    Affiliation: Mathematisches Institut der Universität Freiburg
    Email: bangert@email.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 245-249
    Published electronically: January 12, 2005
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2005 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.