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Author(s): Joseph H. Silverman
Title: The arithmetic of dynamical systems
Additional book information: Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 241, Springer, New York, 2007, x+511 pp., (hardcover) US$49.95, ISBN 0-978-387-69903-5

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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Robert L. Benedetto
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002
Email: rlb@cs.amherst.edu

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (2009), 157-164.

MSC (2000): Primary 11G99; Secondary 11D45, 37F10
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-08-01216-0
PII: S 0273-0979(08)01216-0
Posted: August 29, 2008
Additional notes: The reviewer gratefully acknowledges the support of NSF Grant DMS-0600878.
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.

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