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Author: Alain Connes
Title: Noncommutative geometry
Additional book information: Academic Press, Paris, 1994, xiii+661 pp., ISBN 0-12-185860-X
Originally published in French by InterEditions, Paris (Geometrie Non Commutative, 1990)

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Irving Segal
    Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 459-465
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00687-8
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1996 American Mathematical Society