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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

Published by the American Mathematical Society, the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (BULL) is devoted to research articles of the highest quality in all areas of pure and applied mathematics.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

The 2020 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.47.

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567696
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Book Information:

Authors: H. M. Srivastava and H. L. Manocha
Title: A treatise on generating functions
Additional book information: Halsted Press (Ellis Horwood Limited, Chichester), John Wiley and Sons, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, and Toronto, 1984, 569 pp., $89.95. ISBN 0-470-20010-3.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Per W. Karlsson
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 19 (1988), 346-348
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15669-8