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Authors: Marcelo Aguiar and Swapneel Mahajan
Title: Topics in hyperplane arrangements
Additional book information: Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, Vol. 226, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2017, xxiv+611 pp., ISBN 978-1-4704-3711-4, US$159.00

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Reviewer: S. Forcey
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
Email: sf34@uakron.edu

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