Review: J. F. Cornwell, Group theory in physics, volume III, Supersymmetries and infinite-dimensional algebras

Review: J. F. Cornwell, Group theory in physics, volume III, Supersymmetries and infinite-dimensional algebras

Alex J. Feingold

Source: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) Volume 25, Number 2 (1991), 432-440.

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J. F. Cornwell, Group theory in physics, volume III, Supersymmetries and infinite-dimensional algebras. Techniques of Physics (N. H. Marsh, ed.), Academic Press, New York, 1989, 615 pp., $55.00. ISBN 0-12-189805-9

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