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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)

The 2020 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.84.

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1568195
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: S. Sternberg
Title: Group theory and physics
Additional book information: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994, xiii + 429 pp., US$69.95. ISBN 0-521-24870-1.

References [Enhancements On Off] (What's this?)

  • J. F. Cornwell, Group theory in physics, Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, CA, 1997. An introduction. MR 1468472
  • Gordon James and Martin Liebeck, Representations and characters of groups, Cambridge Mathematical Textbooks, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993. MR 1237401
  • Wu-Ki Tung, Group theory in physics, World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia, PA, 1985. MR 842192, DOI 10.1142/0097
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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: J. E. Humphreys
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1995), 455-457
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00612-9