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Author: Ido Efrat
Title: Valuations, orderings and Milnor $ K$-theory
Additional book information: Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, vol. 124, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2006, xiv+288 pp., ISBN 978-0-8218-4041-2, US$60.00$

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Murray Marshall
    Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
    Email: marshall@math.usask.ca
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 439-444
    Published electronically: August 3, 2007
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2007 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.