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Book Information:

Author: J. M. Landsberg
Title: Geometry and complexity theory
Additional book information: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Vol. 169, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017, xi+339 pp., ISBN 978-1-107-19923-1, US$64.99
Review Information:

Reviewer: Mateusz Michałek
Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; and, Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Email: michalek@mis.mpg.de

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    Review Information:
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 317-324
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1661
    Published electronically: December 3, 2018
    Additional Notes: The author was supported by Polish National Science Center project 2013/08/A/ST1/00804.
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