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Author(s):
I. M. Gelfand, M. M. Kapranov and A.V. Zelevinsky
Title:
Discriminants, resultants and multidimensional determinants
Additional book information:
Birkhäuser,
Boston,
1994,
vii + 523 pp.,
$82.00,
ISBN 0 817 63660 9
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Fabrizio
Catanese
Affiliation:
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Email:
catanese@uni-math.gwdg.de
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
37
(2000),
183-198.
MSC
(2000):
Primary 14M25, 14-02, 14M12
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00858-7
PII:
S 0273-0979(99)00858-7
Posted:
December 21, 1999
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2000,
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