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Author(s): Donald S. Passman
Title: The algebraic structure of group rings
Additional book information: John Wiley & Sons, New York, London, Sydney, Toronto, 1977, xiv + 720 pp., $34.95

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Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 402-410.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14616-0
PII: S 0273-0979(1979)14616-0

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