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Author(s): A. A. Ranicki
Title: Algebraic L-theory and topological manifolds
Additional book information: Cambridge Tracts in Math., vol. 102, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1992, 358, $69.95, ISBN 0-521-42024-5

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Reviewer(s):
Shmuel Weinberger
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Email: shmuel@math.upenn.edu

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 93-99.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00618-0
PII: S 0273-0979(96)00618-0
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society

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