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Author: James Arthur
Title: The endoscopic classification of representations—orthogonal and symplectic groups
Additional book information: AMS Colloquium Publications, Vol. 61, American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 2013, xviii+590 pp., ISBN 978-0-8218-4990-3, $115.00

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Freydoon Shahidi
    Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    Email: shahidi@math.purdue.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 56 (2019), 151-158
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1600
    Published electronically: October 18, 2017
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2017 American Mathematical Society