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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: 1567418
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Book Information:

Author: Norman L. Alling
Title: Real elliptic curves
Additional book information: Mathematics Studies, Vol. 54, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1981, xii + 350 pp., $36.25 US/Dfl. 85.00 paperback. ISBN 0-4448-6233-1.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Harvey Cohn
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 380-385
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15133-9