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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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MathSciNet review: 1566950
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Book Information:

Authors: A. H. Lightstone and A. Robinson
Title: Non-archimedean fields and asymptotic expansions
Additional book information: North-Holland Mathematical Library, vol. 13, North-Holland/American Elsevier, Amsterdam and New York, 1975, 204 + x pp., $24.95.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Peter A. Loeb
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 231-235
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1977-14277-8