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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: 1567760
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Book Information:

Author: Gerard van der Geer
Title: Hilbert modular surfaces
Additional book information: Ergebnisse der Mathematik, Band 16, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1988, ix + 291 pp., $69.50. ISBN 3-540-17601-2.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Gerd Faltings
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 20 (1989), 247-251
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15783-2