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Book Information
Author(s):
Nikolai Chernov and Roberto Markarian
Title:
Chaotic billiards
Additional book information:
Mathematical Surveys and Monographs,
American Mathematical Society,
Providence, RI,
Vol. 127,
2006,
xii+316 pp.,
US $85.00,
ISBN 0-8218-4096-7
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Leonid
Bunimovich
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
46
(2009),
683-690.
MSC
(2000):
Primary 37D50;
Secondary 37D25, 37A25, 37N05, 82B99
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01234-8
PII:
S 0273-0979(09)01234-8
Posted:
March 23, 2009
Copyright of article:
Copyright
2009,
American Mathematical Society
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