Robert Gilmore is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Drexel University, Philadelphia. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Member of the Standing Committee for the International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics. His research areas include group theory, catastrophe theory, atomic and nuclear physics, singularity theory, and chaos.
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1. Introduction 2. Lie groups 3. Matrix groups 4. Lie algebras 5. Matrix algebras 6. Operator algebras 7. Exponentiation 8. Structure theory for Lie algebras 9. Structure theory for simple Lie algebras 10. Root spaces and Dykin diagrams 11. Real forms 12. Riemannian symmetric spaces 13. Contraction 14. Hydrogenic atoms 15. Maxwell's equations 16. Lie groups and differential equations References Index.
