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Zitarelli, D.E. Mathematics Across the Iron Curtain: A History of the Algebraic Theory of Semigroups by Christopher Hollings . Math Intelligencer 38, 84–87 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-015-9566-5
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