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Authors: Albert Fathi, François Laudenbach and Valentin Poénaru
Translated by Djun Kim and Dan Margalit
Title: Thurston’s work on surfaces
Additional book information: Mathematical Notes, 48, Princeton University Press, 2012, xiii+255 pp., ISBN 9780691147352, US $60.00

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    Reviewer: Dan Margalit
    Affiliation: School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 51 (2014), 151-161
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01419-8
    Published electronically: June 10, 2013
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