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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: 1567351
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Book Information:

Authors: Ales Pultr and Věra Trnková
Title: Combinatorial algebraic and topological representations of groups, semigroups and categories
Additional book information: North-Holland Mathematical Library, Amsterdam, 1980, vi + 372 pp., $48.75.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: John Isbell
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 6 (1982), 118-120
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1982-14986-2