Dynamics of second order rational difference equations: With open problems and conjectures

Dynamics of Second Order Rational Difference Equations: With Open Problems and Conjectures

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1-220

  Kulenovic M R S ^a   Ladas, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

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