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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): Nikolai V. Ivanov
Title: Subgroups of Teichmüller modular groups
Additional book information: American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1992, xii + 127 pp., US$107.00. ISBN 0-8218-4594-2.


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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Francis Bonahon

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 30 (1994), 138-142.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00447-1
PII: S 0273-0979(1994)00447-1




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