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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: 1567530
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Book Information:

Authors: W. W. Comfort and S. Negrepontis
Title: Chain conditions in topology
Additional book information: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, Vol. 79, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1982, xiii + 300 pp., $39.50.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: James E. Baumgartner
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985), 145-148
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1985-15324-8