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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Book Information:

Author: L. C. Evans
Title: Partial differential equations
Additional book information: Grad. Stud. Math., vol. 19, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1998, xvii + 662 pp., ISBN 0-8218-0772-2, $75.00$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Jeffrey Rauch
    Affiliation: University of Michigan
    Email: rauch@umich.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (2000), 363-367
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-00-00868-5
    Published electronically: March 3, 2000
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society