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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

Published by the American Mathematical Society, the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (BULL) is devoted to research articles of the highest quality in all areas of pure and applied mathematics.

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

The 2020 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.47.

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567705
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Book Information:

Authors: Charles W. Curtis and Irving Reiner
Title: Methods of representation theory with applications to finite groups and orders, vol. II
Additional book information: John Wiley and Sons, New York, Chicester, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore, 1987, xv+951 pp., $95.00. ISBN 0-471-88871-0.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Jon F. Carlson
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 19 (1988), 484-488
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15709-6