Representation theory
Subtitle: selected papers
By: I.M. Gelfand ... [et al.].
Contributors: Gelʹfand, I. M.
Series: London Mathematical Society lecture note series ;; no. 69
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Representations of groups; Representations of algebras
Description: The unifying theme of this collection of papers by the very creative Russian mathematician I. M. Gelfand and his co-workers is the representation theory of groups and lattices. Two of the papers were inspired by application to theoretical physics; the others are pure mathematics though all the papers will interest mathematicians at quite opposite ends of the subject. Dr. G. Segal and Professor C-M. Ringel have written introductions to the papers which explain the background, put them in perspective and make them accessible to those with no specialist knowledge in the area.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.