Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Addendum: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 76, Number 6 (1970), 1339--1339
MathSciNet review: 1566541
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Book Information:

Author: M. M. Postnikov
Title: The variational theory of geodesics
Additional book information: Translated from the Russian by Scripta Technica, Inc. Edited by Bernard R. Gelbaum. Saunders, Philadelphia, Pa., 1967. 200 pp. $6.00.
Review Information:

Reviewer: Richard Sacksteder
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 297-300
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1970-12452-1