Reviews for Infinite Dimensional Lie Groups in Geometry and Representation Theory

The average rating for Infinite Dimensional Lie Groups in Geometry and Representation Theory based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-02-05 00:00:00 James Cruz Disclaimer: I didn't work more than a bare handful of the problems from this book, so I can't comment on them. I read it through during a short-lived utter infatuation with probabilistic automata (it's cooled to a mere passion now); among several Dover publications on the topic, this includes almost all the useful results.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-04-04 00:00:00 C Macgillivray "A wild dream, a fantasy. The magical maze is not like the Minotaur's labyrinth. It cannot be explored in an afternoon, a month, or a millennium. Some parts are for ever inaccessible. But even those parts that ARE accessible are already of infinite extent..." Ian Stewart's journey through the mathematical is incredibly well written and engaging. Even if you're not interested in maths, there's plenty here to give you new insights into things that you've probably always wondered, "how does this work?" There is plenty of history to get stuck into too, and lots of real world examples; how do pacemakers work? Or how do we send compressed image, audio or video data? How can probability be like water? How are tiling designs made? My favourite is probably the example of Christiaan Huygens, the man who invented the pendulum clock. In 1665, ill and confined to his room, he stared at two of his clocks sharing a shelf. They were ticking in synchrony! The implications this would have for the world concerning coupled oscillators were astonishing. If you have an interest in puzzles, maths, general knowledge or are just plain curious, then this is a book for you! Rav.