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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566969
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Book Information:

Authors: Mircea Malita and Corneliu Zidăroiu
Title: Mathematics of organization
Additional book information: Abacus Press, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, 1974, 383 pp., $30.00.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Laurie Snell
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 676-681
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1977-14342-5