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Book Information:

Authors: Alexander Lubotzky and Dan Segal
Title: Subgroup growth
Additional book information: Birkhäuser, Basel, 2003, 476 pp., ISBN 3-7643-6989-2, $148.00$

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Rostislav I. Grigorchuk
Affiliation: Texas A&M University
Email: grigorch@math.tamu.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 253-256
Keywords: Subgroup growth
Published electronically: December 16, 2003
Review copyright: © Copyright 2003 American Mathematical Society