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MathSciNet review: 1567391
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Book Information:

Author: Bernard Aupetit
Title: Propriétés spectrales des algèbres de Banach
Additional book information: Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 735, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1979, xii + 192 pp., $13.80.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Sandy Grabiner
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 7 (1982), 628-633
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1982-15074-1