Representation Theory

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• impendia · Jul 29, 2015 · Recommends

  …that incomprehensible, start with Dummit and Foote's Abstract Algebra (read it cover to cover), Neukirch's Algebraic Number Theory, Atiyah and Macdonald's Commutative Algebra, and Fulton and Harris's Representation Theory. If you indeed want to read all that, you may as well enroll in a Ph.D. program in math....

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• impendia · May 24, 2011 · Recommends

  …gets on you for it." But I have not experienced this myself, nor heard this complaint from anyone until this article. Moreover I can think of lots of well-known books that are loaded with exposition. Representation Theory by Fulton and Harris comes particularly to mind. Of course, there are many books which are notoriously terse as well. (Any HN'ers tried to hack their way through Baby Rudin?) Indeed, there are many mathematicians…

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• logicalmind · Jun 10, 2010 · Recommends

  …Prentice-Hall, 1991. * Recommended: Halmos, Naive Set Theory, Springer-Verlag, 1974. * Also useful: Halmos, Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces, Springer-Verlag, 1987. * Also useful: Fulton and Harris, Representation Theory: A First Course, Springer-Verlag, 1991. See especially Appendix B. * Also useful: Bott and Tu, Differential forms in Algebraic Topology, Springer-Verlag, 1982. See especially Chapter 1. Math55b *…

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• sdenton4 · Aug 6, 2015 · Recommends

  Sagan's book on the symmetric group is a great introduction to algebraic combinatorics, tracing the combinatorial approach to understanding the representation theory of the symmetric group. For more depth in that direction, Fulton & Harris' 'Representation Theory' builds the connections with Lie groups. Algebraic combinatorics dances in the intersection of a number…

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