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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: 1568062
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Book Information:

Author: D. J.\ Benson
Title: Representations and cohomology, II: Cohomology of groups and modules
Additional book information: Cambridge University Press, London and New York, 1991, x + 278 pp., US$59.95. ISBN 0-521-36135-4.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: J. E.\ Humphreys
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 262-265
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00412-9