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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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Book Information:

Author: William Fulton
Title: Young tableaux: With applications to representation theory and geometry
Additional book information: Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1997, ix + 260 pp., ISBN 0-521-56144-2, hardcover; ISBN 0-521-56724-6, paperback

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Arun Ram
    Affiliation: Princeton University
    Email: rama@math.princeton.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 251-259
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00777-6
    Published electronically: February 16, 1999
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society