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Authors: V. I. Arnold and B. A. Khesin
Title: Topological methods in hydrodynamics
Additional book information: Springer, New York, 1998, xv + 374 pp., ISBN 0-387-94947-X, $59.95$

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    • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Steve Shkoller
    Affiliation: University of California, Davis
    Email: shkoller@math.ucdavis.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (2000), 175-181
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00855-1
    Published electronically: December 21, 1999
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society