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

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MathSciNet review: 3166046
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Book Information:

Authors: Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein and Michel Coornaert
Title: Cellular automata and groups
Additional book information: Springer Monographs in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2010, xx+439 pp., ISBN 978-3-642-14033-4

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Zoran Šunić
    Affiliation: Texas A&M University
    Email: sunic@math.tamu.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 51 (2014), 361-366
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01425-3
    Published electronically: July 23, 2013
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2013 American Mathematical Society