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Book Information:

Title: Theory of finite simple groups
Additional book information: by Gerhard Michler, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006, xii+662 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-86625-5, $155.00$, hardcover

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    • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Derek F. Holt
    Affiliation: Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
    Email: D.F.Holt@warwick.ac.uk
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (2009), 151-156
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-08-01215-9
    Published electronically: September 15, 2008
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2008 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.