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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
ISSN 1088-9485(e) ISSN 0273-0979(p)

     

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Author(s): Paul C. Eklof and Alan H. Mekler
Title: Almost free modules. Set-theoretic methods
Additional book information: North-Holland, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, and Tokyo, 1990, 481 pp., US$115.50. ISBN 0-444-88502-1


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Reviewer(s):
Laszlo Fuchs

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 141-144.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00333-1
PII: S 0273-0979(1993)00333-1




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