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Additional Information
- Gerald L. Alexanderson
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California 95053-0290
- MR Author ID: 24640
- Email: galexand@math.scu.edu
- Published electronically: June 28, 2011
- © Copyright 2011 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 525-530
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2011-01353-2
- MathSciNet review: 2823022