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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Authors: V. I. Gromak, I. Laine and S. Shimomura
Title: Painleve differential equations in the complex plane
Additional book information: de Gruyter Studies in Mathematics, volume 28, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2002, viii + 303 pp., ISBN 3-11-017379-4, $89.95$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Norbert Steinmetz
    Affiliation: University of Dortmund
    Email: stein@math.uni-dortmund.de
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 523-528
    Published electronically: March 24, 2004
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2004 American Mathematical Society