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Translation of an article by Šapirovskiĭ

The AMS has a book, Fourteen Papers Translated from the Russian, containing an article by Šapirovskiĭ, "Cardinal invariants in compact Hausdorff spaces", that I would very much like to ...
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Thomason's "open letter" to the mathematical community

In 1989, Bob Thomason left his CNRS position in Orsay and moved to Paris VII. It was during this period that he composed his "Open Letter" to the mathematical community. The letter explained ...
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How to locate an obscure paper?

A colleague asked me to locate the following paper on the web: Kovalenko, I.N.: On the reconstruction of an additive type of distribution based upon a sequence of independent trials. ...