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Author: A. Borel
Title: Automorphic forms on $SL_{2}(\mathbf{R})$
Additional book information: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, vol. 130, Cambridge University Press, 1997, xiv+574 pp., ISBN 0-521-58049-8, $47.95$

Author: D. Bump
Title: Automorphic forms and representations
Additional book information: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, vol. 55, Cambridge University Press, 1997, xiv+574 pp., ISBN 0-521-55098-X, $79.95$

Author: H. Iwaniec
Title: Topics in classical automorphic forms
Additional book information: Graduate Studies in Math., vol. 17, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1997, xii + 259 pp., ISBN 0-8218-0777-3, $39.00$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Jonathan D. Rogawski
    Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles
    Email: jonr@math.ucla.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 35 (1998), 253-263
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-98-00756-3
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1998 American Mathematical Society