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Book Information
Author(s):
N. L. Biggs and A. T. White
Title:
Permutation groups and combinatorial structures
Additional book information:
London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series No. 33, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York and London, 1979, viii + 140 pp., $13.95
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- H. Lüneburg, Transitive Erweiterungen endlicher Permutationsgruppen, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 84, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1969. MR 241518
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- E. Mathieu, Mémoire sur l'étude des fonctions de plusieurs quantités, J. Math. Pures Appl. 6 (1861), 241-323.
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- E. Mathieu, Sur la fonction cinq fois transitive de 24 quantités, J. Math. Pures Appl. 18 (1873), 24-46.
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- H. Wielandt, Finite permutation groups, Academic Press, New York, 1964. MR 183775
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
William M.
Kantor
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
5
(1981),
197-201.
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-1981-14944-2
PII:
S 0273-0979(1981)14944-2
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