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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: 1567705
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Book Information:

Authors: Charles W. Curtis and Irving Reiner
Title: Methods of representation theory with applications to finite groups and orders, vol. II
Additional book information: John Wiley and Sons, New York, Chicester, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore, 1987, xv+951 pp., $95.00. ISBN 0-471-88871-0.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Jon F. Carlson
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 19 (1988), 484-488
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15709-6