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Author(s): Akio Kawauchi
Title: A survey of knot theory
Additional book information: Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel, Boston, and Berlin, 1996, xxi+420, $89.50, 3-7643-5124-1

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Reviewer(s):
Louis H. Kauffman
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago
Email: kauffman@uic.edu

MSC (1991): Primary 57M25
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00797-1
PII: S 0273-0979(99)00797-1
Posted: July 29, 1999
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society

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