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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567729
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Book Information:

Authors: Ralph Freese and Ralph McKenzie
Title: Commutator theory for congruence modular varieties
Additional book information: London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes, vol. 125, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York and Melbourne, 1987, 227 pp., $27.95. ISBN 0-521-34832-3.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Stanley Burris
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 20 (1989), 94-96
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15710-8