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Book Information:
Author: Nikolai V. Ivanov
Title: Subgroups of Teichmüller modular groups
Additional book information: American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1992, xii + 127 pp., US$107.00. ISBN 0-8218-4594-2.
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Review Information:
Reviewer: Francis Bonahon
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 30 (1994), 138-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00447-1