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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: 1567774
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Book Information:

Author: Yuri Kifer
Title: Ergodic theory of random transformations
Additional book information: Progress in Probability and Statistics, vol. 10, Birkhäuser, Boston, Basel, Stuttgart, 1986, 210 pp., $34.00. ISBN 0-8176-3319-7.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Peter Walters
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1989), 113-117
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15782-0