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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Author: Bruno Poizat
Title: Stable groups
Additional book information: translated by Moses Gabriel Klein, Math. Surveys Monogr., vol. 87, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2001, xiii + 129 pp., ISBN 0-8218-2685-0, $49.00$

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B. POIZAT, A Course in Model Theory: An introduction to contemporary mathematical logic, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000. MR 1757487
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B. POIZAT, Groupes Stables: Une tentative de conciliation entre la géometrie algébrique et la logique mathématique, Nur al-Mantiq wal-Ma'rifah, Lyon, 1987. MR 0902156
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F. O. WAGNER, Stable Groups, Handbook of Algebra 2, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2000. MR 1759598

Review Information:

Reviewer: Thomas Scanlon
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Email: scanlon@math.berkeley.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 573-579
Published electronically: July 9, 2002
Review copyright: © Copyright 2002 American Mathematical Society