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Book Information:

Authors: Akira Kono and Dai Tamaki
Title: Generalized cohomology
Additional book information: Translations of Mathematical Monographs, vol. 230, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2006, xi+254 pp., ISBN 978-0-8218-3514-2, US$49.00$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: John R. Harper
    Affiliation: University of Rochester
    Email: harper@math.rochester.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 309-314
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-07-01161-5
    Published electronically: May 2, 2007
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2007 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.