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Authors: J. H. Bruinier, G. van der Geer, G. Harder and D. Zagier
Title: The 1-2-3 of modular forms
Additional book information: Universitext, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008, x+266 pp., ISBN 978-3-540-74117-6, US $69.95, softcover

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Amanda Folsom
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Email: folsom@math.wisc.edu

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (2009), 527-533
MSC (2000): Primary 11F11, 11F41, 11F46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01256-7
Published electronically: March 23, 2009
Review copyright: © Copyright 2009 American Mathematical Society