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Whitehead torsion

Author(s): J. Milnor
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 72 (1966), 358-426.
MathSciNet review: 0196736
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DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9904-1966-11484-2
PII: S 0002-9904(1966)11484-2

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