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Book Information:

Authors: David Eisenbud and Joe Harris
Title: The geometry of schemes
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000, x + 294 pp., ISBN 0-387-98638-3, $69.95$

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Igor Dolgachev
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Email: idolga@math.ISA.umich.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 467-473
Published electronically: June 12, 2001
Review copyright: © Copyright 2001 American Mathematical Society