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Author: Alex Degtyarev
Title: Topology of algebraic curves. An approach via dessins d’enfants
Additional book information: Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 44, Walter de Gruyter \& Co., Berlin, 2012, xvi+393 pp., ISBN 978-3-11-025591-1, US $181.00

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Anatoly Libgober
    Affiliation: Department of Mathematics,University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    Email: libgober@uic.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 51 (2014), 479-489
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2014-01444-2
    Published electronically: March 17, 2014
    Additional Notes: The author was supported during writing this review by a Simons Foundation grant
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2014 American Mathematical Society