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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: 1567024
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Bernard R. McDonald
Title: Geometric algebra over local rings
Additional book information: Dekker, New York and Basel, 1976, xii + 421 pp., $29.50.

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  • B. V. Limaye and N. B. Limaye, Fundamental theorem for the projective line over non-commutative local rings, Arch. Math. (Basel) 28 (1977), no. 1, 102–109. MR 480495, DOI 10.1007/BF01223897
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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Jack Ohm
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 75-78
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14412-7