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Author: Pertti Mattila
Title: Geometry of sets and measures in Euclidean spaces
Additional book information: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, vol. 44, Cambridge University Press, 1995, x+343 pp., ISBN 0-521-46576-1, $49.95$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Christoph Bandt
    Affiliation: Arndt-Universität Greifswald
    Email: bandt@uni-greifswald.de
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 323-327
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-97-00725-8
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society