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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: 1567581
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Book Information:

Author: H. Furstenberg
Title: Recurrence in ergodic theory and combinatorial number theory
Additional book information: Princeton Univ. Press, 1981, vii + 199 pp., $25.00. ISBN 0-691-08269-3.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Karl Petersen
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 305-309
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1986-15451-0