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Author(s):
Jacques Tits
Title:
Buildings of spherical type and finite $BN$-pairs
Additional book information:
Lecture Notes in Mathematics, no. 386, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1974, 299+x pp., $9.90
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Charles W.
Curtis
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
81
(1975),
652-657.
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9904-1975-13808-0
PII:
S 0002-9904(1975)13808-0
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