Introduction to Representation Theory

As taught in: Fall 2010

Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849 - 1917), one of the founding fathers of representation theory. Photo from Wikipedia.

Instructors:

Prof. Pavel Etingof

MIT Course Number:

18.712

Level:

Undergraduate

Course Features

Lecture notes

Course Description

The goal of this course is to give an undergraduate-level introduction to representation theory (of groups, Lie algebras, and associative algebras). Representation theory is an area of mathematics which, roughly speaking, studies symmetry in linear spaces.