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Author(s): M. Gromov
Title: Metric structures for Riemannian and non-Riemannian spaces
Additional book information: Birkhäuser, Boston, 1999, xix + 585, $89.95, 0-8176-3898-9

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Reviewer(s):
Karsten Grove
Affiliation: University of Maryland
Email: kng@math.umd.edu

MSC (2000): Primary 53B21, 53C20, 53C21, 53C23, 58D17, 54E35, 51H20, 51H25, 28A78
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-01-00904-1
PII: S 0273-0979(01)00904-1
Posted: March 27, 2001
Copyright of article: Copyright 2001, American Mathematical Society

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