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Author(s): A. I. Kostrikin
Title: Around Burnside
Additional book information: Ergeb. Math. Grenzgeb. (3), vol. 20, Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, and Heidelberg, 1990, 220 pp., US$82.00. ISBN 0-387-50602-0

Author(s): Michael Vaughan-Lee
Title: The restricted Burnside problem
Additional book information: London Math. Soc. Monographs (N.S.), vol. 5, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990, 209 pp., US$57.50, ISBN 0-19-853573-2


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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
M. F. Newman

Reviewer(s):
G. E. Wall

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 157-161.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00341-0
PII: S 0273-0979(1993)00341-0




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