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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566808
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: V. S. Varadarajan
Title: Lie groups, Lie algebras, and their representations
Additional book information: Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1974, xiii+430 pp., $19.95.

Author: D. P. Želobenko
Title: Compact Lie groups and their representations
Additional book information: Translations of Mathematical Monographs, Vol. 40, American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I., 1973, viii+448 pp., $35.70.

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    R. P. Feynman, Structure of the proton, Science 183 (1974), 601-610.
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  • D. B. Lichtenberg, Unitary symmetry and elementary particles, Academic Press, New York-London, 1970. MR 0269208

  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: A. W. Knapp
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 81 (1975), 865-872
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1975-13866-3