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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: Wulf Rossmann
Title: Lie groups: An introduction through linear groups
Additional book information: Oxford Grad. Texts Math., vol. 5, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2002, x+265 pp., ISBN 0-19-859683-9, $60.00$

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C. Chevalley. Theory of Lie Groups. I, Princeton Mathematical Series, volume 8. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1946. MR 7:412c
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R. E. Howe, Very basic Lie theory, Amer. Math. Monthly, 90 (1983), 600-623. MR 0719752
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J. E. Humphreys, Introduction to Lie algebras and representation theory, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, volume 9, Springer-Verlag, New York-Berlin, 1972. MR 0323842
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A. W. Knapp, Review of Lie Groups: An Introduction Through Linear Groups by Wulf Rossmann, American Mathematical Monthly, 110 (2003), 446-455.

Review Information:

Reviewer: Peter E. Trapa
Affiliation: University of Utah
Email: ptrapa@math.utah.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 521-527
Published electronically: July 10, 2003
Review copyright: © Copyright 2003 American Mathematical Society