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Book Information:

Authors: Antonio Auffinger, Michael Damron and Jack Hanson
Title: 50 years of first-passage percolation
Additional book information: University Lecture Series, Vol. 68, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, v+161 pp., ISBN 978-1-4704-4183-8

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Ron Rosenthal
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Email: ron.rosenthal@math.ethz.ch