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Author(s): Ido Efrat
Title: Valuations, orderings and Milnor $ K$-theory
Additional book information: Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, vol. 124, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2006, xiv+288 pp., US$60.00, ISBN 978-0-8218-4041-2

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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Murray Marshall
Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Email: marshall@math.usask.ca

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 439-444.

MSC (2000): Primary 12J10, 12J15, 19D45
PII: S 0273-0979(07)01166-4
Posted: August 3, 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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