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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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Review information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 (2016), 681-691
Published electronically: July 8, 2016
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MR: 0004042 (2,309c)
R. Brauer and C. Nesbitt
On the modular characters of groups.
Annals of Mathematics. Second Series 42, (1941), 556–590
Reviewed by: G. de B. Robinson

MR: 0450410 (56 #8704)
Luis Puig
Structure locale dans les groupes finis.
Société Mathématique de France. Bulletin. Supplément. Mémoire. 47, (1976), 132 pp
Reviewed by: W. J. Wong

MR: 0541333 (80f:20010)
J. Alperin and Michel Broué
Local methods in block theory.
Annals of Mathematics. Second Series 110, (1979), no. 1, 143–157
Reviewed by: Wolfgang Willems

MR: 1709949 (2001i:55017)
David J. Benson
Cohomology of sporadic groups, finite loop spaces, and the Dickson invariants.
London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., no. 252, 1998, 10–23 pp.
Reviewed by: Haynes R. Miller

MR: 2302494 (2008e:55021)
Carles Broto, Ran Levi and Bob Oliver
Discrete models for the $p$-local homotopy theory of compact Lie groups and $p$-compact groups.
Geometry & Topology 11, (2007), 315–427
Reviewed by: Haynes R. Miller

MR: 2630058 (2011h:20038)
Michael Aschbacher and Andrew Chermak
A group-theoretic approach to a family of 2-local finite groups constructed by Levi and Oliver.
Annals of Mathematics. Second Series 171, (2010), no. 2, 881–978
Reviewed by: Silvia Onofrei

MR: 2752788 (2012f:20063)
Michael Aschbacher
The generalized Fitting subsystem of a fusion system.
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society 209, (2011), no. 986, vi+110 pp
Reviewed by: Silvia Onofrei

MR: 3118306
Bob Oliver
Existence and uniqueness of linking systems: Chermak’s proof via obstruction theory.
Acta Mathematica 211, (2013), no. 1, 141-175
Reviewed by: Justin Lynd

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 (2016), 681-691
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