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Author: Akio Kawauchi
Title: A survey of knot theory
Additional book information: Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel, Boston, and Berlin, 1996, xxi+420 pp., ISBN 3-7643-5124-1, $89.50$

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    • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Louis H. Kauffman
    Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago
    Email: kauffman@uic.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 539-549
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00797-1
    Published electronically: July 29, 1999
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society