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The paper under review studies some properties of harmonic polynomial morphisms between Euclidean spaces. Let \(\varphi: {\mathbb R}^m\mapsto {\mathbb R}^n\) be a harmonic morphism defined by homogeneous polynomials of the same degree \(d\). The mapping \(\Phi:{\mathbb S}^{m-1}\setminus \varphi^{-1}(0)\to {\mathbb S}_{n-1}\) is given by \(\Phi(x)=\frac{\varphi(x)}{|\varphi(x)|}\). The authors call this mapping the Milnor fibration. The main results of the paper are the following two theorems. Theorem 1. Let \(\varphi:{\mathbb R}^m\mapsto {\mathbb R}^n\) be a harmonic morphism defined by homogeneous polynomials of the same degree \(d\). Then \(\varphi^{-1}(0)=\{0\}\) if and only if \(d=2, m=2n-2\) with \(n=2,3,5\) or \(9\) and \(\varphi\) is equivalent to Hopf construction maps of the real algebras of real, complex, quaternionic, and Cayley numbers. Theorem 2. The Milnor fibration \(\Phi: {\mathbb S}^{m- 1}\setminus\varphi^{-1}(0)\to{\mathbb S}^{n-1}\) is a full submersive morphism whose component functions are the restrictions of irrational functions homogeneous of degree \(0\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0927.00036].