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About the cover: Invariants

Author(s): Yuri Tschinkel
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 433-437.
Posted: May 11, 2007
Comment(s): Full text of H. Minkowski's four-page letter to D. Hilbert, written in Bonn on February 9, 1892.
MathSciNet review: 2318159
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Additional Information:

Yuri Tschinkel
Affiliation: Courant Institute, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New York, New York 10012; and Mathematisches Institut, Bunsenstr. 3-5, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Email: tschinkel@cims.nyu.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-07-01172-X
PII: S 0273-0979(07)01172-X
Received by editor(s): March 25, 2007
Posted: May 11, 2007
Copyright of article: Copyright 2007, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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