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Author(s): M. Schwarz
Title: Morse homology
Additional book information: Progress in Mathematics, vol. 111, Birkh\"auser Verlag, Basel and Boston, MA, 1993, ix+235 pp., US$49.50. ISBN 3-7643- 2904-1


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Reviewer(s):
Helmut Hofer

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1995), 330-334.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00591-4
PII: S 0273-0979(1995)00591-4




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