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MathSciNet review: 1567667
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Book Information:

Authors: César Camacho and Alcides Lins Neto
Title: Geometric theory of foliations
Additional book information: Translated from Portuguese by Sue E. Goodman. Birkhäuser, Boston, Basel and Stuttgart, 1985, 205 pp., $42.00. ISBN 0-8176-3139-9.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Joseph F. Plante
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (1988), 92-97
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15617-0