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Mathematicians attacked the problem for more than 40 years, and it only recently yielded to the massed intellectual power. Schmid (mathematics, U. of Tubingen, Germany) describes the developments of the ideas and methods leading to the result, presenting all the details of the proof. He writes at a level comprehensible to graduate students with some background in groups theory and representation theory. Distributed in the US by World Scientific. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)