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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566653
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Book Information:

Author: Keiô Nagami
Title: Dimension Theory
Additional book information: Volume 37 in the series Pure and Applied Mathematics, Academic Press, New York and London, 1970, 244+xi pp.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: James Keesling
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 78 (1972), 953-956
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1972-13063-5