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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 3686328
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Book Information:

Author: N. Touzi
Title: Optimal stochastic control, stochastic target problems, and backward SDE
Additional book information: Fields Institute Monographs, Vol. 29, Springer, New York, Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, ON, 2013, x+214 pp., ISBN 978-1-4614-4286-8

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Jaime San Martín
    Affiliation: Center for Mathematical Modeling and Department of Mathematical Engineering Universidad de Chile
    Email: jsanmart@dim.uchile.cl
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (2017), 333-339
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1548
    Published electronically: August 24, 2016
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2016 American Mathematical Society