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Book Information:

Author: T. Y. Lam
Title: Serre's problem on projective modules
Additional book information: Springer Monographs in Mathematics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2006, xxi + 401 pp., ISBN 978-3-540-23317-6, US$99.00$

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Richard G. Swan
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Email: swan@math.uchicago.edu

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 451-457
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-08-01171-3
Published electronically: January 7, 2008
Review copyright: © Copyright 2008 American Mathematical Society
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