Matrix Groups: An Introduction to Lie Group Theory

by Andrew Baker

Aimed at advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, this book provides a first taste of the theory of Lie groups as an appetiser for a more substantial further course. Lie theoretic ideas lie at the heart of much of standard undergraduate linear algebra and exposure to them can inform or motivate the study of the latter.
The main focus is on matrix groups, i.e., closed subgroups of real and complex general linear groups. The first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852334703
• ISBN13: 9781852334703
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.2"