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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
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Author(s): M. A. Tsfasman and S. G. Vl\u adu\c t
Title: Algebraic-geometric codes
Additional book information: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston and London, 1991, xxiv+667 pp., US$229.00. ISBN 0-7923-0727-5


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Reviewer(s):
J. H. van Lint

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 306-310.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00311-7
PII: S 0273-0979(1992)00311-7




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