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Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849 - 1917), one of the founding fathers of representation theory. Photo from Wikipedia.
Prof. Pavel Etingof
18.712
Fall 2010
Undergraduate
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.
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