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Characters of Solvable Groups

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I. Martin Isaacs, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Publication: Graduate Studies in Mathematics
Publication Year: 2018; Volume 189
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-3485-4 (print); 978-1-4704-4725-0 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/gsm/189
MathSciNet review: MR3791517
MSC: Primary 20-02; Secondary 20C15, 20C20, 20D10, 20D15, 20D35, 20F14, 20F16

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Front/Back Matter

$\pi$-theory

Character counts and correspondences

M-groups

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