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Errata: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 39 (2002), 299

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Author(s): J. S. Wilson
Title: Profinite groups
Additional book information: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998, ix+284, $115.00, ISBN 0-19-850082-3

Author(s): L. Ribes and P. Zalesskii
Title: Profinite groups
Additional book information: Springer, New York, 2000, xiv+ 435, $109.00, ISBN 3-540-66986-8

Author(s): J. D. Dixon, M. P. F. du Sautoy, A. Mann and D. Segal
Title: Analytic pro-$p$ groups
Additional book information: 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1999, xviii+ 368, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-65011-9

Editor(s): M. du Sautoy, D. Segal and A. Shalen.
Title: New horizons in pro-$p$ groups
Additional book information: Birkhäuser, Boston, 2000, xiii+423, $79.00, ISBN 0-8176-4171-8

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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Alexander Lubotzky
Affiliation: Hebrew University
Email: alexlub@math.huji.ac.il

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 475-479.

MSC (2000): Primary 20E18, 20J05, 12G05, 20E05, 20E06, 20G25, 11R23, 11S15, 11S20, 20D15, 20E07, 20E08, 20F05, 20F10, 20F40, 20F50, 20M35, 22E20
PII: S 0273-0979(01)00914-4
Posted: June 12, 2001
Copyright of article: Copyright 2001, American Mathematical Society

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