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Book Information:
Author: Avinoam Mann
Title: How groups grow
Additional book information: London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, Vol. 395, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012, ix+199 pp., ISBN 978-1-107-65750-2
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Review Information:
Reviewer: V. Nekrashevych
Affiliation: Texas A & M University
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 495-502
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01406-X
Published electronically: April 4, 2013
Review copyright: © Copyright 2013 American Mathematical Society
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