Product Description: The main objective of this book is to give a systematic exposition of the main results and techniques of the factorization theory of abelian groups. The necessary background materials are presented along with some of the most important applications in geometry, combinatorics, coding theory, and number theory...read more

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Product Description: Twenty-four contributed chapters in four sections give medical researchers and practicing clinicians a review of the origins, presentations, therapies, and human investigation of ulcer disease. The most extensive section is that on therapies (10 chapters, 207 pp...read more

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