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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

The 2020 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.84.

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1568145
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Henri Cohen
Title: A course in computational algebraic number theory
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, New York, 1993, xxi+534 pp., US$49.00. ISBN 3-540-55640-0.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Hale Trotter
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (1994), 312-318
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00542-7