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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: 1567516
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Book Information:

Author: Peter T. Johnstone
Title: Stone spaces
Additional book information: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1983, xxi + 370 pp., $59.50. ISBN 0-5212-3983-5.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: John Isbell
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 11 (1984), 389-392
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1984-15323-0