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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: 1567133
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Sam B. Nadler Jr.
Title: Hyperspaces of sets
Additional book information: Monographs and Textbooks on Pure and Applied Mathematics, No. 49, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1978, xvi + 707 pp., $45.00.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Jack Segal
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 412-414
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14620-2