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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: 1567783
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Book Information:

Author: Gerhard Preuss
Title: Theory of topological structures. An approach to categorical topology
Additional book information: Translated by Andreas Behling, Mathematics and its Applications, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster, Tokyo, 1988, xii + 304 pp., $69.00. ISBN 90-277-2627-2.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Walter Tholen
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1989), 149-152
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15799-6