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

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566983
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Book Information:

Author: Dale Rolfsen
Title: Knots and links
Additional book information: Publish or Perish, Inc., Berkeley, California, 439 pp., $15.00.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Lee P. Neuwirth
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 931-935
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1977-14327-9