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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

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

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567134
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Book Information:

Author: P. M. Cohn
Title: Skew field constructions
Additional book information: London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series No. 27, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne, 1977, xii + 253 pp., $12.95.

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  • P. M. Cohn, Free rings and their relations, London Mathematical Society Monographs, No. 2, Academic Press, London-New York, 1971. MR 0371938
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    P. M. Cohn, The universal field of fractions of a semifir. I, II, III, Proc. London Math. Soc. (to appear).
  • Peter Malcolmson, A prime matrix ideal yields a skew field, J. London Math. Soc. (2) 18 (1978), no. 2, 221–233. MR 509937, DOI 10.1112/jlms/s2-18.2.221

  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: G. M. Bergman
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 414-420
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14622-6