The development of dynamics in the 20th century and the contribution of Jürgen Moser

Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1343-1364

  Hasselblatt, Boris ^a   Katok, Anatole ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/S0143385702001062     Document Type: Article

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