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Book Information:

Author: Vishnu D. Sharma
Title: Quasilinear hyperbolic systems, compressible flows, and waves
Additional book information: Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 142. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2010, xiv + 268 pp., ISBN 978-1-4398-3690-3

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Helge Kristian Jenssen
Affiliation: Penn State University
Email: hkj1@psu.edu

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 49 (2012), 591-596
MSC (2000): Primary 35-02; Secondary 35L65, 35L72, 35L77, 35Q30, 76L05, 76N10, 76N15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2011-01356-8
Published electronically: September 13, 2011
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