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Editor(s): H. Hauser, J. Lipman, F. Oort and A. Quirós.
Title: Alterations and resolution of singularities
Additional book information: Birkhäuser, Basel, 2000, xxi+598, $108.00, 3-7643-6178-6


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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Fedor Bogomolov
Affiliation: Courant Institute, NYU
Email: bogomolo@cims.nyu.edu

Reviewer(s):
Yuri Tschinkel
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago
Email: yuri@math.uic.edu

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 95-100.

MSC (2000): Primary 14B05, 32Sxx, 58Kxx
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-01-00922-3
PII: S 0273-0979(01)00922-3
Posted: October 10, 2001
Copyright of article: Copyright 2001, American Mathematical Society


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