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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566941
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Book Information:

Author: Kevin A. Broughan
Title: Invariants for real-generated uniform topological and algebraic categories
Additional book information: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, No. 491, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1975, x + 197 pp., $8.20.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: J. R. Isbell
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 200-203
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1977-14260-2