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Author(s): Douglas C. Ravenel
Title: Complex cobordism and stable homotopy groups of spheres
Additional book information: Academic Press, Orlando, 1986. xix + 413 pp., $90.00 cloth, $45.00 paperback. ISBN 0-12-583430-6


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Reviewer(s):
Peter S. Landweber

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 88-91.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15615-7
PII: S 0273-0979(1988)15615-7


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