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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 Information:

Authors: G. Cornell, J. H. Silverman and G. Stevens
Title: Modular forms and Fermat's Last Theorem
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997, xix + 582 pp., ISBN 0-387-94609-8, $49.95$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Kevin Buzzard
    Affiliation: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
    Email: buzzard@ic.ac.uk
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 261-266
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00778-8
    Published electronically: February 22, 1999
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society