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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: 1567946
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Book Information:

Authors: Peter Kleidman and Martin Liebeck
Title: The subgroup structure of the finite classical groups
Additional book information: London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, vol. 129, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990, vii + 303 pp., $29.95. ISBN 0-521-35949-X.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Michael Aschbacher
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 (1991), 200-204
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1991-16065-9