Challenging problems on affine n-space
Séminaire Bourbaki : volume 1994/95, exposés 790-804, Astérisque, no. 237 (1996), Talk no. 802, 23 p.
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Kraft, Hanspeter. Challenging problems on affine $n$-space, in Séminaire Bourbaki : volume 1994/95, exposés 790-804, Astérisque, no. 237 (1996), Talk no. 802, 23 p. http://archive.numdam.org/item/SB_1994-1995__37__295_0/

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