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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: 1568066
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Book Information:

Author: V. L. Popov
Title: Groups, generators, syzygies, and orbits in invariant theory
Additional book information: (translated from the Russian by A. Martsinkovsky). Translations of Mathematical Monographs, vol. 100, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1992, vi + 245 pp., US$181.00. ISBN 0-8218-4557-8.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Gerald W. Schwarz
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 299-304
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00433-6