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Book Information
Author(s):
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.,
$69.00,
ISBN 0-8218-0904-0
References:
- [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 37:6307
- [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
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
T.
A.
Springer
Affiliation:
University of Utrecht
Email:
springer@math.uu.nl
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
36
(1999),
383-388.
MSC
(1991):
Primary 11E39, 11E57, 11E72;
Secondary 11E88, 16K20, 16W10, 17A75, 17C40, 20G15
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00780-6
PII:
S 0273-0979(99)00780-6
Posted:
April 21, 1999
Copyright of article:
Copyright
1999,
American Mathematical Society
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