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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566849
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Book Information:

Authors: S. S. Abhyankar and A. M. Sathaye
Title: Geometric theory of algebraic space curves
Additional book information: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, no. 423, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1974, xiv+302 pp., $11.50.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Stephen S. Shatz
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 82 (1976), 232-237
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1976-13998-5