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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Authors: P. I. Naumkin and I. A. Shishmarev
Title: Nonlinear nonlocal equations in the theory of waves
Additional book information: Transl. Math. Monographs, vol. 133, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1994, x+289 pp., ISBN 0-8218-4753-X, $149.00$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: John P. Albert
    Affiliation: University of Oklahoma
    Email: jalbert@uoknor.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 95-100
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-97-00705-2
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society