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BOOK REVIEWS BULLETIN (New Series) OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Volume 50, Number 4, October 2013, Pages 645–654 S 0273-0979(2013)01399-5 Article electronically published on January 17, 2013 Automorphic representations and L-functions for the general linear group. Volume I, by Dorian Goldfeld and Joseph Hundley, with exercises and a preface by Xan- der Faber, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Vol. 129, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011, xx+550 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-47423-8, US $105.00 Automorphic representations and L-functions for the general linear group. Volume II, by Dorian Goldfeld and Joseph Hundley, with exercises and a preface by Xan- der Faber, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Vol. 130, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011, xx+188 pp., ISBN 978-1-107-00794-4, US $82.00 1. Introduction One of the signs of the maturity of a subject, and oftentimes one of the causes of it, is the appearance of technical textbooks that are accessible to strong first- year graduate students. Such textbooks would have to make a careful selection of topics that are scattered in papers and research monographs and present them in a coherent fashion, occasionally replacing the natural historical order of the development of the subject by another order that is pedagogically sensible; this textbook would also have to unify the varying notations and definitions of various sources. For a field, like the theory of automorphic forms and representations, which despite its long history, is still in many ways in its infancy, writing a textbook that satisfies the demands listed above is a daunting task, and if done successfully its completion is a real achievement that will affect the development of the subject in the coming years and decades.
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