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Book Information
Author(s):
Franz Georg Timmesfeld
Title:
Abstract root subgroups and simple groups of Lie-type
Additional book information:
Birkhäuser-Verlag,
Basel, Boston, Berlin,
2001,
xiii + 389,
$125.00,
3-7643-6532-3
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Richard
Weiss
Affiliation:
Tufts University
Email:
rweiss@tufts.edu
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
40
(2003),
151-154.
MSC
(2000):
Primary 20G15
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-02-00971-0
PII:
S 0273-0979(02)00971-0
Posted:
October 17, 2002
Copyright of article:
Copyright
2002,
American Mathematical Society
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