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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: 1568052
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Leonard Evens
Title: The cohomology of groups
Additional book information: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991, xii+159 pp., US$39.95. ISBN 0-19-853580-5.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Richard G. Swan
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 113-116
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00393-8