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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: 1567716
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Book Information:

Author: Shoshichi Kobayashi
Title: Differential geometry of complex vector bundles
Additional book information: Publications of the Mathematical Society of Japan, no. 15 Iwanami Shoten Publishers and Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1987, xi+304 pp., $57.50. ISBN 0-691-08467-x.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Christian Okonek
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 19 (1988), 528-530
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15731-X