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Book Information:
Author:
O. T. O'Meara
Title:
Symplectic groups
Additional book information:
Mathematical Surveys, no. 16, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R. I., 1978, xi + 122 pp., $22.80.
Armand Borel and Jacques Tits, Homomorphismes “abstraits” de groupes algébriques simples, Ann. of Math. (2) 97 (1973), 499–571 (French). MR 316587, DOI 10.2307/1970833
David Callan, The isomorphisms of unitary groups over noncommutative domains, J. Algebra 52 (1978), no. 2, 475–503. MR 486190, DOI 10.1016/0021-8693(78)90251-X
Jean Dieudonné, On the automorphisms of the classical groups. With a supplement by Loo-Keng Hua, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1951), vi+122. MR 45125
Jean Dieudonné, La géométrie des groupes classiques, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Göttingen-Heidelberg, 1963 (French). Seconde édition, revue et corrigée. MR 0158011
Bernard R. McDonald, Geometric algebra over local rings, Pure and Applied Mathematics, No. 36, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York-Basel, 1976. MR 0476639
O. T. O’Meara, Lectures on linear groups, Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, No. 22, American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I., 1974. Expository Lectures from the CBMS Regional Conference held at Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz., March 26–30, 1973. MR 0349862
7. O. Schreier and B. L. van der Waerden, Die Automorphismen der projektiven Gruppen, Abh. Math. Sem. Univ. Hamburg 6 (1928), 303-322.
- 1.
- A. Borel and J. Tits, Homomorphismes "abstraits" de groupes algébriques simples, Ann. of Math. (2) 97 (1973), 499-571. MR 0316587
- 2.
- D. Callan, The isomorphisms of unitary groups over noncommutative domains, J. Algebra 52 (1978), 475-503. MR 486190
- 3.
- J. Dieudonné, On the automorphisms of the classical groups, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc., no. 2, Amer. Math. Soc. Providence, R. I., 1951. MR 45125
- 4.
- J. Dieudonné, La géométrie des groupes classiques, 2nd. ed., Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, Band 5, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1963. MR 158011
- 5.
- B. R. McDonald, Geometric algebra over local rings, Dekker, New York and Basel, 1976. MR 476639
- 6.
- O. T. O'Meara, Lectures on linear groups, CBMS Regional Conf. Ser. in Math., no. 22, Amer. Math. Soc. Providence, R. I., 1974. MR 349862
- 7.
- O. Schreier and B. L. van der Waerden, Die Automorphismen der projektiven Gruppen, Abh. Math. Sem. Univ. Hamburg 6 (1928), 303-322.
Review Information:
Reviewer:
D. G. James
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
1 (1979), 782-784
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14666-4
