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Author(s): Kjeld Knudsen Jensen and Klaus Thomsen
Title: Elements of $KK$-theory
Additional book information: Mathematics: Theory \& Applications, Birkh\"auser, Boston, Basel, and Berlin, 1991, viii + 202 pp., US$49.50. ISBN 0-8176-3496-7, ISBN 3-7643-3496-7


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Reviewer(s):
Jonathan Rosenberg

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 342-347.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00361-6
PII: S 0273-0979(1993)00361-6


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