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Authors: Meinolf Geck and Götz Pfeiffer
Title: Characters of finite Coxeter groups and Iwahori-Hecke algebras
Additional book information: Oxford University Press, 2000, xv + 443 pp., ISBN 0-19-850250-8, $110.00$

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Roger W. Carter
Affiliation: University of Warwick
Email: rwc@maths.warwick.ac.uk
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 267-272
Published electronically: December 27, 2001
Review copyright: © Copyright 2001 American Mathematical Society