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Introduction to 3-Manifolds

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Jennifer Schultens, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA

Publication: Graduate Studies in Mathematics
Publication Year: 2014; Volume 151
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-1020-9 (print); 978-1-4704-1558-7 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/gsm/151
MathSciNet review: MR3203728
MSC: Primary 57Mxx

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