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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
ISSN 1088-9485(e) ISSN 0273-0979(p)

     

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Author(s): P. Hĭjek and T. Havrĭnek
Title: Mechanizing hypothesis formation. Mathematical foundations for a general theory
Additional book information: Universitext, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1978, xv + 396 pp., $24.00


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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
I. J. Good

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 650-654.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14650-0
PII: S 0273-0979(1979)14650-0




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