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This paper is part of a thesis submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Michigan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy. The thesis was written under the direction of Prof. E. E. Moise; the author was a National Science Foundation fellow at the time. Presented to the American Mathematical Society November 12, 1955. The author wishes to thank the referee for his comments.
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Munkres, J. The triangulation of locally triangulable spaces. Acta Math. 97, 67–93 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02392393
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