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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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Book Information:

Author: Isaac Chavel
Title: Riemannian geometry: A modern introduction
Additional book information: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, no. 108, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994, xii + 386 pp., ISBN 0-521-43201-4, $59.95$; ISBN 0-521-48578-9, $24.95$, paperback
Paperback is in series Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, no. 108

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Jerry L. Kazdan
    Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
    Email: kazdan@math.upenn.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 339-344
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00664-7
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1996 American Mathematical Society