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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566962
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Book Information:

Author: Kenji Ueno
Title: Classification theory of algebraic varieties and compact complex spaces
Additional book information: Lecture Notes in Math., no. 439, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1975, 278 + xix pp., $12.10.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Gayn B. Winters
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 344-349
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1977-14258-4