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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: 1567864
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Book Information:

Authors: Jonathan S. Golan and Harold Simmons
Title: Derivatives, nuclei and dimensions on the frame of torsion theories
Additional book information: Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series no. 188, Longman Scientific & Technical, Harlow, U.K. (co-published in the United States with John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York), 1988, 120 pp., $44.95. ISBN 0-582-03448-5.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: P. T. Johnstone
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 23 (1990), 178-182
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1990-15927-0