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Book Information:

Author: V. F. R. Jones
Title: Subfactors and knots
Additional book information: CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, vol. 80, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, ix\,+\,113 pp., US$43{.}00. ISBN 0-8218-0729-3.

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    • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Louis H. Kauffman
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (1994), 147-154
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00509-9