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Book Information:
Authors: Percy Deift and Dimitri Gioev
Title: Random matrix theory: invariant ensembles and universality
Additional book information: Courant Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 18, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York; American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 2009, x+217 pp., ISBN 978-0-8218-4737-4, $33.00
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Review Information:
Reviewer: Estelle Basor
Affiliation: American Institute of Mathematics
Email: ebasor@aimath.org
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 147-152
MSC (2010): Primary 60-02; Secondary 47Bxx, 47N50, 60B99, 60E05, 62E99, 82Bxx
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2010-01307-0
Published electronically: October 27, 2010
Review copyright: © Copyright 2010 American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
