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Book Information:
Author: Gianni Dal Maso
Title: An introduction to $\Gamma $-convergence
Additional book information: Birkh\"auser, Boston, 1992, xiv+337 pp., US$69.50. ISBN 0-8176-3679-X.
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Review Information:
Reviewer: Marco Avellaneda
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (1994), 277-283
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00532-4