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Author(s): M. A. Naĭmark and A. I. Štern
Title: Theory of group representations
Additional book information: translated by Elizabeth Hewitt, translation edited by Edwin Hewitt, Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol. 246, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York, 1982, ix + 568 pp., $59.00. ISBN 0-3879-0602-9

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Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1983), 115-121.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15178-9
PII: S 0273-0979(1983)15178-9

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