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Author(s): Paulo Ribenboim
Title: The book of prime number records
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1988, xxiii + 476 pp., $49.80. ISBN 0-387-96573-4


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Reviewer(s):
S. S. Wagstaff Jr.

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1989), 365-369.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15866-7
PII: S 0273-0979(1989)15866-7


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