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Authors: I. M. Gelfand, M. M. Kapranov and A.V. Zelevinsky
Title: Discriminants, resultants and multidimensional determinants
Additional book information Birkhäuser, Boston, 1994, vii + 523 pp., $82.00, ISBN 0 817 63660 9.

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Review Information

Reviewer: Fabrizio Catanese
Affiliation: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Email: catanese@uni-math.gwdg.de
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (2000), 183-198
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00858-7
PII: S 0273-0979(99)00858-7
Posted: December 21, 1999
Review copyright: © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society

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