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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567139
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Book Information:

Authors: Morikuni Goto and Frank D. Grosshans
Title: Semisimple Lie algebras
Additional book information: Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics, No. 38, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1978, vii + 480 pp., $37.50.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: J. E. Humphreys
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 515-518
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14600-7