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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., ISBN 0 817 63660 9, $82.00$

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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: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00858-7
    Published electronically: December 21, 1999
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society