Lectures on Lie Groups

by J. F. Adams

Overview

"[Lectures in Lie Groups] fulfills its aim admirably and should be a useful reference for any mathematician who would like to learn the basic results for compact Lie groups. . . . The book is a well written basic text [and Adams] has done a service to the mathematical community."--Irving Kaplansky

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226005300
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	01/15/1983
Series:	Midway Reprint Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
1. Basic Definitions
2. One-Parameter Subgroups, the Exponential Map, Etc.
3. Elementary Representation Theory
4. Maximal Tori in Lie Groups
5. Geometry of the Stiefel Diagram
6. Representation Theory
7. Representations of the Classical Groups
References