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Author: Jun-ichi Igusa
Title: An introduction to the theory of local zeta functions
Additional book information: American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, and International Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000, xii + 232 pp., ISBN 0-8218-2015-X, $45.00$

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Margaret Robinson
Affiliation: Mount Holyoke College
Email: robinson@mtholyoke.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 221-227
Published electronically: December 27, 2000
Review copyright: © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society