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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: 1567388
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: John R. Silvester
Title: Introduction to algebraic $K$-theory
Additional book information: Chapman & Hall, London, 1981, xi + 255 pp., $29.95 hardcover, $13.95 paperback.

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  • Hyman Bass, Algebraic $K$-theory, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., New York-Amsterdam, 1968. MR 0249491
  • John Milnor, Introduction to algebraic $K$-theory, Annals of Mathematics Studies, No. 72, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.; University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1971. MR 0349811
  • Daniel Quillen, Higher algebraic $K$-theory. I, Algebraic $K$-theory, I: Higher $K$-theories (Proc. Conf., Battelle Memorial Inst., Seattle, Wash., 1972) Lecture Notes in Math., Vol. 341, Springer, Berlin, 1973, pp. 85–147. MR 0338129

  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Susan C. Geller
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 7 (1982), 616-618
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1982-15070-4