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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: 1567096
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Book Information:

Authors: R. K. Sachs and H. Wu
Title: General relativity for mathematicians
Additional book information: Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, New York, Heidelberg, Berlin, 1977, xii + 291 pp., $19.83.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: John A. Thorpe
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 1344-1346
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14570-4