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Author(s): Warren Dicks
Title: Groups, trees and projective modules
Additional book information: Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 790, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1980, 126 pp., $9.80

Author(s): Jean-Pierre Serre
Title: Trees
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1980, ix + 142 pp., $29.80

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Reviewer(s):
Roger C. Alperin

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 401-405.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15146-7
PII: S 0273-0979(1983)15146-7

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