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Author(s): Skip Garibaldi, Alexander Merkurjev and Jean-Pierre Serre
Title: Cohomological invariants in Galois cohomology
Additional book information: University Lecture Series, vol. 28, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2003, vii+168, $35.00, ISBN 0-8218-3287-5

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Reviewer(s):
John Swallow
Affiliation: Davidson College
Email: joswallow@davidson.edu

MSC (2000): Primary 12G05, 11E72
PII: S 0273-0979(04)01033-X
Posted: September 24, 2004
Copyright of article: Copyright 2004, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.

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