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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: 1567469
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Book Information:

Author: T. Tsuzuku
Title: Finite groups and finite geometries
Additional book information: (translated from the 1976 Japanese version by A. Sevenster and T. Okuyama), Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, Vol. 78, Cambridge University Press, 1982, x + 328 pp., $42.50. ISBN 0-5212-2242-7.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: William M. Kantor
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1983), 382-387
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15222-9