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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: 1567464
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Book Information:

Author: Gerhard P. Hochschild
Title: Basic theory of algebraic groups and Lie algebras
Additional book information: Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 75, Springer-Verlag, New York, Heidelberg, Berlin, 1981, viii + 267 pp., $32.00. ISBN 0-3879-0541-3.

Author: T. A. Springer
Title: Linear algebraic groups
Additional book information: Progress in Mathematics, vol. 9, Birkhauser, Boston; Basel, Stuttgart, 1981, x + 304 pp., $20.00. ISBN 3-7643-2039-5.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Brian Parshall
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1983), 364-368
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15212-6