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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:

Authors: A.A. Samarski, V.A. Galaktionov, S.P. Kurdyumov and A.P. Mikhailov
Title: Blow-up in quasilinear parabolic equations
Additional book information: vol. 19, de Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics, de Gruyter, Berlin and Hawthorne, NY, 1995, xxi + 533 pp., ISBN 3-11-012754-7, $198.95$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Nick Alikakos
    Affiliation: University of Tennessee and University of Athens
    Email: alikakos@utk.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 483-486
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00675-1
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1996 American Mathematical Society