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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.
N. L. Biggs and A. T. White, Permutation groups and combinatorial structures, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, vol. 33, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge-New York, 1979. MR 540889
Bertram Huppert and Norman Blackburn, Finite groups. II, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften [Fundamental Principles of Mathematical Sciences], vol. 242, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1982. AMD, 44. MR 650245
Peter J. Cameron, Finite permutation groups and finite simple groups, Bull. London Math. Soc. 13 (1981), no. 1, 1–22. MR 599634, DOI 10.1112/blms/13.1.1
Walter Feit, Some consequences of the classification of finite simple groups, The Santa Cruz Conference on Finite Groups (Univ. California, Santa Cruz, Calif., 1979) Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., vol. 37, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I., 1980, pp. 175–181. MR 604576
Daniel Gorenstein, Finite simple groups, University Series in Mathematics, Plenum Publishing Corp., New York, 1982. An introduction to their classification. MR 698782
Robert L. Griess Jr., The friendly giant, Invent. Math. 69 (1982), no. 1, 1–102. MR 671653, DOI 10.1007/BF01389186
William M. Kantor, Some consequences of the classification of finite simple groups, Finite groups—coming of age (Montreal, Que., 1982) Contemp. Math., vol. 45, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1985, pp. 159–173. MR 822238, DOI 10.1090/conm/045/822238
Michio Suzuki, Gun ron. Vol. 1, Gendai Sūgaku [Modern Mathematics], vol. 18, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 1977 (Japanese). MR 514842
Jacques Tits, Buildings of spherical type and finite BN-pairs, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 386, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1974. MR 0470099
Helmut Wielandt, Finite permutation groups, Academic Press, New York-London, 1964. Translated from the German by R. Bercov. MR 0183775
- 1.
- N. L. Biggs and A. T. White, Permutation groups and combinatorial structures, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., No. 33, 1979. MR 0540889
- 2.
- N. Blackburn and B. Huppert, Finite groups. II, III, Springer, Berlin and New York, 1982. MR 650245
- 3.
- P. J. Cameron, Finite permutation groups and finite simple groups, Bull. London Math. Soc. 13 (1981), 1-22. MR 599634
- 4.
- W. Feit, Some consequences of the classification of finite simple groups, Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., vol. 37, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R. I., 1980, pp. 175-181. MR 604576
- 5.
- D. Gorenstein, Finite simple groups: An introduction to their classification, Plenum, New York, 1982. MR 698782
- 6.
- R. L. Greiss, The Friendly Giant, Invent. Math. 69 (1982), 1-102. MR 671653
- 7.
- W. M. Kantor, Some consequences of the classification of finite simple groups, Proc. Montreal Monster Conf. 1982 (to appear). MR 822238
- 8.
- M. Suzuki, Group theory. I, Springer, Berlin and New York, 1982. MR 648772
- 9.
- J. Tits, Buildings of spherical type and finite BN-pairs, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 386, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1974. MR 470099
- 10.
- H. Wielandt, Finite permutation groups, Academic Press, New York, 1964. MR 183775
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