Mathematical Survey Lectures 1943-2004
This collection traces the career of Beno Eckmann, whose work ranges across a broad spectrum of mathematical concepts from topology and differential geometry through homological algebra to group theory. One of our most influential living mathematicians, Eckmann has been associated for nearly his entire professional life with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), as student, lecturer, professor, and professor emeritus.
Groupes et algèbres de Lie : Chapitre 1 = Lie groups and algebras : Chapter 1
Nicolas BOURBAKI's Elements of Mathematics aim to provide a rigorous, systematic and un-prerequisite presentation of mathematics from their foundations. This ninth chapter of the Book on Groups and Lie Algebras, ninth Book of the treatise, includes the paragraphs, Compact Lie Algebras ; Maximum tori of compact Lie groups; Compact fromes of complex semi-simple Lie algebras; Root system associated with a compact group; Conjugation classes; Integration into compact Lie groups; Irreducible representations of connected compact Lie groups; Fourier transformation; Operation of compact Lie groups on manifolds.
Exercises in Modules and Rings
This Problem Book offers a compendium of 639 exercises of varying degrees of difficulty in the subject of modules and rings at the graduate level. The material covered includes projective, injective, and flat modules, homological and uniform dimensions, noncommutative localizations and Goldie’s theorems, maximal rings of quotients, Frobenius and quasi-Frobenius rings, as well as Morita’s classical theory of category dualities and equivalences. Each of the nineteen sections begins with an introduction giving the general background and the theoretical basis for the problems that follow. All exercises are solved in full detail; many are accompanied by pertinent historical and bibliographical information, or a commentary on possible improvements, generalizations, and latent connections to other problems.
An Introduction to Quantum and Vassiliev Knot Invariants
Provides an accessible introduction to knot theory, focussing on Vassiliev invariants, quantum knot invariants constructed via representations of quantum groups, and how these two apparently distinct theories come together through the Kontsevich invariant. Consisting of four parts, the book opens with an introduction to the fundamentals of knot theory, and to knot invariants such as the Jones polynomial. The second part introduces quantum invariants of knots, working constructively from first principles towards the construction of Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants and a description of how these arise through Drinfeld and Jimbo's quantum groups. Its third part offers an introduction to Vassiliev invariants, providing a careful account of how chord diagrams and Jacobi diagrams arise in the theory, and the role that Lie algebras play. The final part of the book introduces the Konstevich invariant. This is a universal quantum invariant and a universal Vassiliev invariant, and brings together these two seemingly different families of knot invariants. The book provides a detailed account of the construction of the Jones polynomial via the quantum groups attached to sl(2), the Vassiliev weight system arising from sl(2), and how these invariants come together through the Kontsevich invariant.
Algèbre, Chapitre 9 = Algebra, Chapter 9
Sesquilinear and quadratic forms : The Mathematics Elements of Nicolas BOURBAKI aim to provide a rigorous, systematic presentation without prerequisites of mathematics from their foundations. This ninth chapter of the Book of Algebra, the second Book of the treatise, is devoted to quadratic, symplectic or Hermitian forms and to associated groups.
Algebras, Rings and Modules ; Vol.2
This book provides both the classical aspects of the theory of groups and their representations as well as a general introduction to the modern theory of representations including the representations of quivers and finite partially ordered sets and their applications to finite dimensional algebras.





