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Kostant, Bertram. Ed(S): Joseph, Anthony; Kumar, Shrawan; Vergne, Michele - Collected Papers of Bertram Kostant - 9780387095844 - V9780387095844
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Collected Papers of Bertram Kostant

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Description for Collected Papers of Bertram Kostant Hardback. For more than five decades Bertram Kostant has been a major architect of modern Lie theory. This second volume of a five-volume set of his collected papers spans 1965 to 1975, and includes Kostant's commentaries and summaries of his papers in his own words. Editor(s): Joseph, Anthony; Kumar, Shrawan; Vergne, Michele. Num Pages: 644 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PBF; PBG; PBMP; PHU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 193. .

In this second volume of Bertram Kostant's collected papers, the reader will engage in Works published between 1967 and 1977. Kostant was of one of the major architects of modern Lie theory and virtually all of his papers are pioneering with deep consequences, many giving rise to whole new fields of activities. His interests span a tremendous range of Lie theory, from differential geometry to representation theory, abstract algebra, and mathematical physics. Some specific topics cover algebraic groups and invariant theory, the geometry of homogeneous spaces, representation theory, geometric quantization and symplectic geometry, Lie algebra cohomology, Hamiltonian mechanics, modular forms, ... Read more

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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
644
Condition
New
Number of Pages
788
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387095844
SKU
V9780387095844
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About Kostant, Bertram. Ed(S): Joseph, Anthony; Kumar, Shrawan; Vergne, Michele
Bertram Kostant was Professor Emeritus at MIT. He died on February 2, 2017 at 88 years old. Kostant was of one of the major architects of modern Lie theory and virtually all of his papers are pioneering with deep consequences, many giving rise to whole new fields of activities. His interests spanned a tremendous range of Lie theory, from differential geometry to ... Read more

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