Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Author: Douglas C. Ravenel
Title: Complex cobordism and stable homotopy groups of spheres
Additional book information: Academic Press, Orlando, 1986. xix + 413 pp., $90.00 cloth, $45.00 paperback. ISBN 0-12-583430-6.

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J. F. Adams, On the structure and applications of the Steenrod algebra, Comment. Math. Helv. 32 (1958), 180-214. MR 0096219

2.

M. Aubry, Calculs de groupes d'homotopie stables de la sphère, par la suite spectrale d'Adams-Novikov, Math. Z. 183 (1984), 45-91. MR 724045

3.

J. Morava, Noetherian localisations of categories of cobordism comodules, Ann. of Math. (2) 121 (1985), 1-39. MR 782555

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D. Ravenel, A novice's guide to the Adams-Novikov spectral sequence, Geometric Applications of Homotopy Theory II, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 658, pp. 404-475, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1978. MR 513586

5.

J. -P. Serre, Groupes d'homotopie et classes de groupes abéliens, Ann. of Math. (2) 58 (1953), 258-294. MR 59548

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J. H. Silverman, The arithmetic of elliptic curves, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1986. MR 817210

7.

G. W. Whitehead, Fifty years of homotopy theory, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N. S. ) 8 (1983), 1-29. MR 682818

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W. S. Wilson, Brown-Peterson homology, an introduction and sampler, CBMS Regional Conf. Ser. in Math., no. 48, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R. I., 1980. MR 655040