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Authors: 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., ISBN 1-56881-163-2, US$69.00$

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Edward Formanek
    Affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University
    Email: formanek@math.psu.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (2006), 579-584
    Published electronically: April 20, 2006
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2006 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.