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Erratum: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 299-299.
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- Profinite groups by J. S. Wilson
- Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 475-479
- Additional book information: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998, ix+284 pp., ISBN 0-19-850082-3, $115.00$
- Profinite groups by L. Ribes and P. Zalesskii
- Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 475-479
- Additional book information: Springer, New York, 2000, xiv+ 435 pp., ISBN 3-540-66986-8, $109.00$
- Analytic pro- groups by J. D. Dixon, M. P. F. du Sautoy, A. Mann and D. Segal
- Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 475-479
- Additional book information: 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1999, xviii+ 368 pp., ISBN 0-521-65011-9, $59.95$
- New horizons in pro- groups
Editors: M. du Sautoy, D. Segal and A. Shalen - Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 475-479
- Additional book information: edited by M. du Sautoy, D. Segal and A. Shalen, Birkhäuser, Boston, 2000, xiii+423 pp., ISBN 0-8176-4171-8, $79.00$
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- A. Lubotzky, A. Mann, Residually finite groups of finite rank, Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 106 (1989), 385-388. MR 91a:20028
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- L. Ribes, Profinite Groups and Galois Cohomology, Queen's Papers Pure Appl. Math. 24 (1970), Kingston, ON, Canada. MR 41:5495
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Reviewer information
- Reviewer: Alexander Lubotzky
- Affiliation: Hebrew University
- Email: alexlub@math.huji.ac.il
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- Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 475-479
- Published electronically: June 12, 2001
- Review Copyright: © Copyright 2001 American Mathematical Society