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Author(s): V. G. Turaev
Title: Quantum invariants of knots and 3-manifolds
Additional book information: de Gruyter Studies in Mathematics, vol. 18, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1994, x + 588 pp., $118.95 (DM 288), ISBN 3-11-013704-6


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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Greg Kuperberg
Affiliation: Yale University
Email: greg@math.yale.edu

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 107-110.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00621-0
PII: S 0273-0979(96)00621-0
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society




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