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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Authors: Fred Diamond and Jerry Shurman
Title: A first course in modular forms
Additional book information: Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 228, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005, xvi + 436 pp., ISBN 0-387-23229-X, US$69.95$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Frank Calegari
    Affiliation: Harvard University
    Email: fcale@math.harvard.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (2006), 415-421
    Published electronically: April 18, 2006
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2006 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.