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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: 1567987
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Gregory Karpilovsky
Title: Symmetric and G-algebras (with applications to group representations)
Additional book information: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1990, 366 pp., US$99.00. ISBN 0-7923-0761-5.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Morton E. Harris
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 203-204
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00307-5