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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): Charles Nash
Title: Differential topology and quantum field theory
Additional book information: Academic Press, New York, 1991, 386 pp., US$59.95. ISBN 0-12-514075-4.


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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Daniel S. Freed

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 153-157.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00340-9
PII: S 0273-0979(1993)00340-9




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