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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: David Eisenbud
Title: Commutative algebra with a view toward algebraic geometry
Additional book information: Graduate Texts in Math., vol. 150, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1995, xvi+785 pp., ISBN 0-387-94268-8, $69.50$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Mark Green
    Affiliation: University of California at Los Angeles
    Email: mlg@math.ucla.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 367-370
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00662-3
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1996 American Mathematical Society