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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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Book Information:

Author: V.V. Vershinin
Title: Cobordisms and spectral sequences
Additional book information: Translations of Mathematical Monographs, vol. 130, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1993, v + 97 pp., ISBN 0-8218-4582-9, $62.00$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Nils A. Baas
    Affiliation: University of Trondheim
    Email: baas@imf.unit.no
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 111-113
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00622-2
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1996 American Mathematical Society