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Book Information:
Authors: Francis E. Burstall and John H. Rawnsley
Title: Twistor theory for Riemannian symmetric spaces
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1990, 112 pp., $14.70. ISBN 3-540-52602-1.
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Review Information:
Reviewer: Raymond O. Wells, Jr.
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 (1991), 454-457
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1991-16090-8
