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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: 1567149
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Robin Hartshorne
Title: Algebraic geometry
Additional book information: Graduate Texts in Mathematics 52, Springer-Verlag, New York, Heidelberg, Berlin, 1977, xvi + 496 pp., $24.50.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Stephen S. Shatz
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 553-560
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14618-4