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Author(s): Wolmer V. Vasconcelos
Title: Arithmetic of blowup algebras
Additional book information: London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., vol. 195 Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1994, 329, $34.95, 0-521-45484-0


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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Bernd Ulrich
Affiliation: Michigan State University
Email: ulrich@math.msu.edu

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 177-181.

MSC (1991): Primary 13A30; Secondary 13-02, 13C20, 13C40, 13D02, 13D40, 13F15, 13H10, 13P10
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-97-00701-5
PII: S 0273-0979(97)00701-5
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society


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