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    STUDIA MATHEMATICA - Issue no. 1 / 2008  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEWS - A. BOREL AND L. JI, COMPACTIFICATIONS OF SYMMETRIC AND LOCALLY SYMMETRIC SPACES, BIRKHÄUSER (MATHEMATICS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS), 2006, HARDBACK, 476 PP., ISBN-10: 0-8176-3247-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-8176-3247-2.

Authors:  PAUL A. BLAGA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:   Symmetric and locally symmetric spaces occur, as the authors of this monograph emphasize from the very beginning, in many branches of modern mathematics. In many situations, they are noncompact. As it usually happens, it is a lot easier to deal with compact spaces, therefore there were elaborated several ways to compactify them. This is, to my knowledge, the first serious attempt to present in a unified manner, the most important compactification methods known so far.  
         
     
         
         
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