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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Author: Wolfgang Woess
Title: Random walks on infinite graphs and groups
Additional book information: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, vol. 138, Cambridge University Press, 2000, xi+334 pp., ISBN 0-521-55292-3, $64.95$

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Toshikazu Sunada
Affiliation: Tohoku University
Email: sunada@math.tohoku.ac.jp
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 281-285
Published electronically: December 27, 2001
Review copyright: © Copyright 2001 American Mathematical Society