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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

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

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567725
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Book Information:

Authors: Z. Ditzian and V. Totik
Title: Moduli of smoothness
Additional book information: Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin and Heidelberg, 1987, ix+225 pp., $54.90. ISBN 0-387-96536-x.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Paul L. Butzer
    Reviewer: Erich van Wickeren
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 19 (1988), 568-572
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15745-X