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Book Information:

Author: Wolmer V. Vasconcelos
Title: Arithmetic of blowup algebras
Additional book information: London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., vol. 195 Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1994, 329 pp., ISBN 0-521-45484-0, $34.95$

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Bernd Ulrich
    Affiliation: Michigan State University
    Email: ulrich@math.msu.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 177-181
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-97-00701-5
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society