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Additional Information
- Gerald L. Alexanderson
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053-0290
- MR Author ID: 24640
- Email: galexand@math.scu.edu
- Received by editor(s): March 24, 2010
- Published electronically: April 28, 2010
- © Copyright 2010 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 553-555
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-10-01308-X