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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: 1566974
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Book Information:

Author: Felix E. Browder
Title: Mathematical developments arising from Hilbert problems
Additional book information: Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., vol. 28, American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976, xii + 628 pp., $37.60.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Irving Kaplansky
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 697-699
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1977-14351-6