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Author(s): Alexei Kanel-Belov and Louis Halle Rowen
Title: Computational aspects of polynomial identities
Additional book information: Research Notes in Mathematics, vol. 9, A~K Peters, Ltd., Wellesley, MA, 2005, xxi + 378 pp., US$69.00, ISBN 1-56881-163-2

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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Edward Formanek
Affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University
Email: formanek@math.psu.edu

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (2006), 579-584.

MSC (2000): Primary 16R10
PII: S 0273-0979(06)01106-2
Posted: April 20, 2006
Copyright of article: Copyright 2006, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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