Bulletin (New Series) of the American Mathematical Society

Review: Francis E. Burstall and John H. Rawnsley, Twistor theory for Riemannian symmetric spaces

Raymond O. Wells

Source: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) Volume 25, Number 2 (1991), 454-457.

Reviewed Works:

Francis E. Burstall, John H. Rawnsley, Twistor theory for Riemannian symmetric spaces. Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1990, 112 pp., $14.70. ISBN 3-540-52602-1

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