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Book Information:

Authors: Nikolai Chernov and Roberto Markarian
Title: Chaotic billiards
Additional book information: Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, Vol. 127, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2006, xii+316 pp., ISBN 0-8218-4096-7, US $85.00

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Leonid Bunimovich
Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (2009), 683-690
MSC (2000): Primary 37D50; Secondary 37D25, 37A25, 37N05, 82B99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01234-8
Published electronically: March 23, 2009
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