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  1. Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University, 85287-1804, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A.

    Frank Hoppensteadt

  2. Department of Mathematics, Hofstra University, Adams 109, 11550, Hempstead, NY, U.S.A.

    Harold M. Hastings

  3. Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, 32306-3027, Tallahassee, FL, U.S.A.

    Michael Mesterton-Gibbons

  4. Department of Mathematics, University of Bath, Claverton Down, BA2 7AY, Bath, U.K.

    K. A. Jane White

  5. Department of Physics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, 92093-0402, La Jolla, CA, U.S.A.

    Henry D. I. Abarbanel

  6. Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 02543, Woods Hole, MA, U.S.A.

    Michael G. Neubert

  7. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, 59717, Bozeman, MT, U.S.A.

    Mark Pernarowski

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Hoppensteadt, F., Hastings, H.M., Mesterton-Gibbons, M. et al. Book reviews. Bltn Mathcal Biology 59, 787–807 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02458430

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