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Book Information:

Author: Geon Ho Choe
Title: Computational ergodic theory
Additional book information: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2005, 472 pp., ISBN 3-540-23121-8, US$89.95$

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    • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Bruce Kitchens
    Affiliation: Indiana U. Purdue U. Indianapolis
    Email: bkitchens@math.iupui.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 147-155
    Published electronically: October 2, 2006
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2006 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.