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Book Information:
Authors:
M.-A. Knus,
A. Merkurjev,
M. Rost and
J.-P. Tignol (with a preface by J. Tits)
Title:
The book of involutions
Additional book information:
American Mathematical Society Colloquium Publications, vol. 44,
American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1998,
xxi + 593 pp.,
ISBN 0-8218-0904-0,
$69.00$
[Dic] L. E. Dickson, Linear Groups, Teubner, Leipzig, 1901.
Garrett Birkhoff and Morgan Ward, A characterization of Boolean algebras, Ann. of Math. (2) 40 (1939), 609–610. MR 9, DOI 10.2307/1968945
P. Hebroni, Sur les inverses des éléments dérivables dans un anneau abstrait, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 209 (1939), 285–287 (French). MR 14
J. Tits, Formes quadratiques, groupes orthogonaux et algèbres de Clifford, Invent. Math. 5 (1968), 19–41 (French). MR 230747, DOI 10.1007/BF01404536
[Wei] A. Weil, Algebras with involutions and the classical groups, in: Oeuvres Scientifiques, vol. II, p. 413-447, Springer-Verlag, 1980.
T. Venkatarayudu, The $7$-$15$ problem, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Sect. A. 9 (1939), 531. MR 0000001, DOI 10.1090/gsm/058
- [Dic]
- L. E. Dickson, Linear Groups, Teubner, Leipzig, 1901.
- [Die]
- J. Dieudonné, Sur les groupes classiques, Hermann, Paris, 1948. MR 9:494c
- [E]
- M. Eichler, Quadratische Formen und orthogonale Gruppen, Grundl. d. Math., Bd. LXIII, Springer-Verlag, 1952. MR 14:540a
- [T]
- J. Tits, Formes quadratiques, groupes orthogonaux et algèbres de Clifford, Inv. Math. 5 (1968), 19-41. MR 0230747
- [Wei]
- A. Weil, Algebras with involutions and the classical groups, in: Oeuvres Scientifiques, vol. II, p. 413-447, Springer-Verlag, 1980.
- [Wey]
- H. Weyl, The Classical Groups, Their Invariants and Representations, Princeton University Press, 1939. MR 1:42c
Review Information:
Reviewer:
T. A. Springer
Affiliation:
University of Utrecht
Email:
springer@math.uu.nl
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
36 (1999), 383-388
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00780-6
Published electronically:
April 21, 1999
Review copyright:
© Copyright 1999
American Mathematical Society
