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Author(s): Shmuel Weinberger
Title: The topological classification of stratified spaces
Additional book information: Chicago Lectures in Math., Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1994, xiv+283, $47.50, ISBN 0-226-88566-6

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Reviewer(s):
Sylvain Cappell
Affiliation: New York University
Email: cappell@cappell.cims.nyu.edu

MSC (1991): Primary 57N80; Secondary 57R67
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-98-00763-0
PII: S 0273-0979(98)00763-0
Copyright of article: Copyright 1998, American Mathematical Society

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