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Book Review

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Book Information:

Author: Curtis T. McMullen
Title: Complex dynamics and renormalization
Additional book information: Princeton University Press, 1994, vii + 214 pp., $22.50$; ISBN 0-691-02982-2, cloth; ISBN 0-691-02981-4, paper

Author: Curtis T. McMullen
Title: Renormalization and 3-manifolds which fiber over the circle
Additional book information: Princeton University Press, 1996, vii + 253 pp.; ISBN 0-691-01154-0, cloth; ISBN 0-691-01153-2, paper

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Mikhail Lyubich
    Email: mlyubich@math.sunysb.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 103-107
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00770-3
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society