{"id":189,"date":"2002-02-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-13T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2002-02-13T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-13T21:00:00","slug":"189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

These “What Kind of — Are You?” personality tests have run their course. Case in point:<\/font>
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If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be William Fulton and Joe Harris’s Representation Theory: A First Course<\/i><\/b>.<\/font><\/p>\n

My primary goal is to introduce the beginner to the finite-dimensional representations of Lie groups and Lie algebras. Intended to serve non-specialists, my concentration is on examples. The general theory is developed sparingly, and then mainly as a useful and unifying language to describe phenomena already encountered in concrete cases. I begin with a brief tour through representation theory of finite groups, with emphasis determined by what is useful for Lie groups; in particular, the symmetric groups are treated in some detail. My focus then turns to Lie groups and Lie algebras and finally to my heart: working out the finite dimensional representations of the classical groups and exploring the related geometry. The goal of my last portion is to make a bridge between the example-oriented approach of the earlier parts and the general theory.<\/font>
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Which Springer GTM would you<\/i> be?<\/font>
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Now, I find this mildly<\/em> amusing, since I used to work in a bookstore and was, more than once, responsible for receiving boxes and boxes of Springer-Verlag books (it was a University, we had quote-unquote “yellow sales,” it wasn’t fun), but what’s the point? Really, what’s the point? Found at Tuppence<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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