Subject: Another response
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 23:15:57 +0100
From: Andrew Ranicki <andrew_ranicki@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: aar@maths.ed.ac.uk
To: Don Davis <dmd1@lehigh.edu>

The classical fact referred to by Tom Goodwillie and Nick Kuhn that Z x
Z x Z x ... is a torsion-free abelian group which is not free is due to
Baer (I.Kaplansky,  Infinite Abelian Groups, Michigan (1954), p.48).