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Book Information:

Author: G. A. Margulis
Title: On some aspects of the theory of Anosov systems
Additional book information: Springer Monographs in Mathematics, Springer, Berlin, 2004, 138 pp., ISBN 3-540-40121-0, $69.95$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: William Parry
    Affiliation: University of Warwick
    Email: b.parry@warwick.ac.uk
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 257-261
    Published electronically: February 10, 2005
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2005 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.