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Author(s): Yiannis N. Moschovakis
Title: Descriptive set theory
Additional book information: Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics, vol. 100, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1980, xii + 637 pp.,$73.25


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Reviewer(s):
Thomas Jech

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1981), 339-349.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1981-14952-1
PII: S 0273-0979(1981)14952-1




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