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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: 1566987
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Book Information:

Authors: L. A. Zadeh, K.-S. Fu, K. Tanaka and M. Shimura
Title: Fuzzy sets and their applications to cognitive and decision processes
Additional book information: Academic Press, New York, 1975, x + 496 pp., $16.00.

Author: A. Kaufmann
Title: Introduction to the theory of fuzzy subsets. Volume I
Additional book information: (Translated from the French edition of 1973), Academic Press, New York, 1975, xvi + 416 pp., $22.50.

Authors: C. V. Negoiţă and D. A. Ralescu
Title: Applications of fuzzy sets to systems analysis
Additional book information: (Revised and translated from the Romanian edition of 1974), Birkhäuser Verlag and Halsted Press (Wiley and Sons, Inc.), Basel and New York, 1975, 191 pp., $19.75.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Michael A. Arbib
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 946-951
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1977-14331-0