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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: 2721048
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Book Information:

Authors: Ryoshi Hotta, Kiyoshi Takeuchi and Toshiyuki Tanisaki
Translated by Kiyoshi Takeuchi from the 1995 Japanese original
Title: D-modules, perverse sheaves, and representation theory
Additional book information: Progress in Mathematics, 236, Birkha\"user Boston, Inc., Boston, 2008, xii+407 pp., ISBN 978-0-8176-4363-8, US $89.95

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Dennis Gaitsgory
    Affiliation: Harvard University
    Email: gaitsgde@math.harvard.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 743-746
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-10-01296-6
    Published electronically: April 9, 2010
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2010 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.