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Author(s): Roe Goodman and Nolan R. Wallach
Title: Representations and invariants of the classical groups
Additional book information: Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1998, xvi + 685 pp., (hardcover) $100.00, ISBN 0-521-58273-3 ; (paperback) $39.95, ISBN 0-521-66348-2

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Reviewer(s):
Jacob Towber
Affiliation: De Paul University
Email: jtowber@math.uchicago.edu

MSC (1991): Primary 20G20, 22E46
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00795-8
PII: S 0273-0979(99)00795-8
Posted: July 28, 1999
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society

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