A valuable text for physicists, covering fundamental concepts of group theory in an easy to understand manner. Concepts are discussed with the help of solved problems and real-life applications.
A valuable text for physicists, covering fundamental concepts of group theory in an easy to understand manner. Concepts are discussed with the help of solved problems and real-life applications.
Pichai Ramadevi is Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. She received her Ph.D. from Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. Her research interests include string theory, knot theory and supersymmetry. She has been working on Chern-Simons field theory as a theory of knots and links and their relations to topological string theory. She has published more than fifty papers in journals of national and international repute. She has taught courses including general theory of relativity, group theory methods, particle physics, quantum mechanics and quantum physics and applications at undergraduate and graduate level.
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Preface Acknowledgement Dedication 1. Introduction 2. Molecular symmetry 3. Representations of finite groups 4. Elementary applications 5. Lie groups and lie algebras 6. Further applications Reference Index.
