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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1568041
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Book Information:

Author: V. S. Varadarajan
Title: An introduction to harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups
Additional book information: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Math., vol. 16, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge and New York, 1989, x+316 pp., US$69.50. ISBN 0-521-34156-6.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Joseph A. Wolf
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 367-370
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00365-3