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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Authors: Daniel Gorenstein, Richard Lyons and Ronald Solomon
Title: The classification of the finite simple groups
Additional book information: Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, vol. 40, no. 2, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1994, xiv + 218 pp., ISBN 0-8218-0390-5, $59.00$

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  • Daniel Gorenstein, Richard Lyons, and Ronald Solomon, The classification of the finite simple groups, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, vol. 40, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1994. MR 1303592, DOI 10.1090/surv/040.1
  • Ron Solomon, On finite simple groups and their classification, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (1995), no. 2, 231–239. MR 1311642

  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Michael Aschbacher
    Affiliation: California Institute of Technology
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1997), 39-41
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-97-00703-9
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society