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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: 1567408
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Book Information:

Author: David L. Armacost
Title: The structure of locally compact Abelian groups
Additional book information: Pure and Applied Mathematics: A Series of Monographs and Textbooks, vol. 68, Dekker, New York, 1981, vii + 168 pp., $23.75.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Lawrence Corwin
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 346-348
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15113-3