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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: 1567415
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Joseph J. Rotman
Title: An introduction to homological algebra
Additional book information: Academic Press, New York, 1979, xi + 376 pp., $26.50.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: J. Lambek
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 371-375
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15128-5