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Additional Information
- Alicia Dickenstein
- Affiliation: Departamento de Matemática, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, C1428EGA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- MR Author ID: 57755
- Email: alidick@dm.uba.ar
- Received by editor(s): September 10, 2008
- Published electronically: September 15, 2008
- Additional Notes: I am grateful to David Eisenbud for listening to my story and suggesting to write it for the Bulletin. I also thank my friends Michael Singer, Daniel Arias and Adrián Paenza for their thorough reading of the first version of this note.
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (2009), 125-129
- MSC (2000): Primary 01A60; Secondary 83-03
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-08-01237-8
- MathSciNet review: 2457074