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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

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

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Author: Antoine Henrot
Title: Extremum problems for eigenvalues of elliptic operators
Additional book information: Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel--Boston--Berlin, x + 202 pp., ISBN 978-3-7643-7705-2, US$49.95$

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Leonid Friedlander
    Affiliation: University of Arizona
    Email: friedlan@math.arizona.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 335-338
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-07-01173-1
    Published electronically: January 4, 2008
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2007 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.