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Author(s):
Oliver Pretzel
Title:
Codes and algebraic curves
Additional book information:
Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and Its Applications, Clarendon Press,
Oxford,
1998,
xii + 192 pp.,
$65.00,
ISBN 0-19-850039-4
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Carlos
Moreno
Affiliation:
City University of New York
Email:
carlos@kepler.baruch.cuny.edu
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
36
(1999),
399-404.
MSC
(1991):
Primary 94B27, 11T71, 14H05
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00783-1
PII:
S 0273-0979(99)00783-1
Posted:
June 8, 1999
Copyright of article:
Copyright
1999,
American Mathematical Society
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