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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: 1567058
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: A. F. Wells
Title: Three-dimensional nets and polyhedra
Additional book information: Wiley, New York, 1977, xii + 268 pp., $29.95.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: H. S. M. Coxeter
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 466-470
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14495-4