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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: 1567003
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Book Information:

Author: C. Hooley
Title: Applications of sieve methods to the theory of numbers
Additional book information: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, no. 70, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne, 1976, xiv + 122 pp., $18.95.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: A. Good
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1977), 1015-1021
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1977-14360-7