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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: 1567900
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Authors: G. Hiss and K. Lux
Title: Brauer trees of sporadic groups
Additional book information: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989, 525 pp., $75.00. ISBN 0-19-853381-0.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Walter Feit
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 24 (1991), 195-199
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1991-15987-2