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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Author: Ivan Singer
Title: Best approximation in normed linear spaces by elements of linear subspaces
Additional book information: Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, Band 171, Publishing House of the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, Bucharest, 1970 and Springer-Verlag, New York-Heidelberg-Berlin, 1970. 415 pp., $21.50.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Wojbor A. Woyczynski
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 78 (1972), 685-690
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1972-12982-3