" The first] ten chapters...are an efficient, accessible, and self-contained introduction to affine algebraic groups over an algebraically closed field. The author includes exercises and the book is certainly usable by graduate students as a text or for self-study...the author has a] student-friendly style The following] seven chapters... would also be a good introduction to rationality issues for algebraic groups. A number of results from the literature appear for the first time in a text."

Mathematical Reviews (Review of the Second...