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Book Information:
Authors:
Derek F. Holt and
W. Plesken
Title:
Perfect groups
Additional book information:
Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 1989, xii + 364 pp., $70.00. ISBN 0-19-853559-7.
Ludwig Bieberbach, Über die Bewegungsgruppen der Euklidischen Räume (Zweite Abhandlung.) Die Gruppen mit einem endlichen Fundamentalbereich, Math. Ann. 72 (1912), no. 3, 400–412 (German). MR 1511704, DOI 10.1007/BF01456724
Daniel Gorenstein, Finite simple groups, University Series in Mathematics, Plenum Publishing Corp., New York, 1982. An introduction to their classification. MR 698782
Marshall Hall Jr. and James K. Senior, The groups of order $2^{n}\,(n\leq 6)$, The Macmillan Company, New York; Collier Macmillan Ltd., London, 1964. MR 0168631
Graham Higman, Enumerating $p$-groups. I. Inequalities, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 10 (1960), 24–30. MR 113948, DOI 10.1112/plms/s3-10.1.24
Charles C. Sims, Enumerating $p$-groups, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 15 (1965), 151–166. MR 169921, DOI 10.1112/plms/s3-15.1.151
- [B] L. Bieberbach, Uber die Bewegungsgruppen der Euklidischen Raume I, II, Math. Ann. 70 (1910), 297-336; Math. Ann. 72 (1912), 400-412. MR 1511704
- [G] D. Gorenstein, Finite simple groups: an introduction to their classification, Plenum Press, New York, 1982. MR 698782
- [H-S] M. Hall, Jr. and J. K. Senior, The groups of order 2^n(n = 6), Macmillan Press, New York, 1964. MR 168631
- [Hi] G. Higman, Enumerating p-groups I, Proc. London Math. Soc. 10 (1960), 24-30. MR 113948
- [S] C. C. Sims, Enumerating p-groups, Proc. London Math. Soc. 15 (1965), 151-166. MR 169921
Review Information:
Reviewer:
Ron Solomon
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
24 (1991), 402-405
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1991-16047-7