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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: 1568046
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Book Information:

Author: Klaus Doerk and Trevor Hawkes
Title: Finite soluble groups
Additional book information: De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics, vol. 4, de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 1992, x + 891 pp., US$148.00. ISBN 3-11-012892-6.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Cheryl E. Praeger
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 104-106
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00388-4