Challenging problems on affine $n$-space

Challenging problems on affine

n

-space

Kraft, Hanspeter

Séminaire Bourbaki : volume 1994/95, exposés 790-804, Astérisque, no. 237 (1996), Talk no. 802, 23 p.

EuDML: 110203 | MR: 1423629 | Zbl: 0892.14003 | 2 citations in Numdam

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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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