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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Additional Information
  • Gerald L. Alexanderson
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053-0290
  • MR Author ID: 24640
  • Email: galexand@math.scu.edu
  • Received by editor(s): May 10, 2009
  • Published electronically: July 7, 2009
  • © Copyright 2009 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (2009), 669-670
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01269-5
  • MathSciNet review: 2525739