Group Theory - Birdtracks, Lie''s, and Exceptional Groups

Zusatztext "[T]he narrative of the book is written in a relaxed and witty style. The book is intriguing as well as entertaining." ---Jeb F. Willenbring, Mathematical Reviews Informationen zum Autor Predrag Cvitanovic is the Glen P. Robinson Professor of Nonlinear Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Universality in Chaos and lead author of the ChaosBook.org webbook. Klappentext "In "Group Theory!" we get a sense of the quest Cvitanovic has been on! which makes the book much more fun to read than the average mathematics text. This book is intriguing! novel! and important."--John Baez! University of California! Riverside "There has been an urgent need for an in-print and readily available version of Cvitanovic's innovative and systematic approach to the group-theoretic calculations occurring in theoretical physics and beyond. Well-organized and well-written! this book is definitely an important and valuable contribution to its field."--Alan J. Macfarlane! Cambridge University Zusammenfassung Develops, explains, and applies diagrammatic projection operators to construct all semi-simple Lie algebras, both classical and exceptional. This book takes readers on a four-thousand-diagram journey through the theory of Lie groups.

Product details

• Authors: Predrag Cvitanovi, Cvitanovi&, Predrag Cvitanovic, Predrag Cvitanović
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.2008
• EAN: 9780691118369
• ISBN: 978-0-691-11836-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Arithmetic, algebra; Algebra, MATHEMATICS / Algebra / General