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Author(s): M.-A. Knus, A. Merkurjev, M. Rost and J.-P. Tignol (with a preface by J. Tits)
Title: The book of involutions
Additional book information: American Mathematical Society Colloquium Publications, vol. 44, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1998, xxi + 593, $69.00, ISBN 0-8218-0904-0

[Dic]: L. E. Dickson, Linear Groups, Teubner, Leipzig, 1901.
[Die]: J. Dieudonné, Sur les groupes classiques, Hermann, Paris, 1948. MR 9:494c
[E]: M. Eichler, Quadratische Formen und orthogonale Gruppen, Grundl. d. Math., Bd. LXIII, Springer-Verlag, 1952. MR 14:540a
[T]: J. Tits, Formes quadratiques, groupes orthogonaux et algèbres de Clifford, Inv. Math. 5 (1968), 19-41. MR 37:6307
[Wei]: A. Weil, Algebras with involutions and the classical groups, in: Oeuvres Scientifiques, vol. II, p. 413-447, Springer-Verlag, 1980.
[Wey]: H. Weyl, The Classical Groups, Their Invariants and Representations, Princeton University Press, 1939. MR 1:42c

Reviewer(s):
T. A. Springer
Affiliation: University of Utrecht
Email: springer@math.uu.nl

MSC (1991): Primary 11E39, 11E57, 11E72; Secondary 11E88, 16K20, 16W10, 17A75, 17C40, 20G15
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00780-6
PII: S 0273-0979(99)00780-6
Posted: April 21, 1999
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society

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