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MathSciNet review: 1567459
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Book Information:

Author: A. J. Dodd
Title: The core model
Additional book information: London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes Series No. 61, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, New York, 1982, xxxviii + 229 pp., $24.95. ISBN 0-5212-8530-5.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Akihiro Kanamori
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1983), 339-345
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15199-6