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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Information:

Authors: Allan M. Sinclair and Roger R. Smith
Title: Hochschild cohomology of von Neumann algebras
Additional book information: London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., vol. 203, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1995, vii+196 pp., ISBN 0-521-47880-4, $29.95$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: William L. Paschke
    Affiliation: University of Kansas
    Email: paschke@math.ukans.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 63-65
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-97-00695-2
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society