Groups and group theory

Originally published in 1984, The World of Waiters provides a close look at the area of everyday working life, focusing on the profession of waiters.

Fifty years ago Claude Chevalley revolutionized Lie theory by pub- lishing his classic Theory of Lie Groups I.

The chapters in this volume explore the influence of the Russian school on the development of algebraic geometry and representation theory, particularly the pioneering work of two of its illustrious members, Alexander Beilinson and Victor Ginzburg, in celebration of their 60th birthdays.

This textbook presents a theoretical framework for developing a personal standard of ethics that can be applied in everyday communication situations.

Language is the essence of interpersonal behavior and social relationships, and it is social cognitive processes that determine how we produce and understand language.

Understanding Dialogical Leadership emphasizes the power of dialogue, self-reflection, and shared decision-making in navigating the complexities of collaborative leadership, especially in the face of evolving challenges in modern life.

Hideki Omori is widely recognized as one of the world's most creative and original mathematicians.

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This is the sixth volume of a comprehensive and elementary treatment of finite group theory.

This timely interdisciplinary book brings together a wide spectrum of theoretical concepts and their empirical applications in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, informing our understanding of the social and psychological bases of a global crisis.

This is the fourth volume of a comprehensive and elementary treatment of finite p-group theory.

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This textbook provides a readable account of the examples and fundamental results of groups from a theoretical and geometrical point of view.

During the past 30 years, there have been a steadily increasing number of scientific and popular publications dealing with lying and deception.

This book addresses interconnections between contemporary advances in mathematics, especially algebra, with applications in the social sciences and the arts.

Lies, Lying and Liars: A Psychological Analysis delves into the psychology of lies, exploring the processes of lying and its far-reaching consequences.

This book explores the Lipschitz spinorial groups (versor, pinor, spinor and rotor groups) of a real non-degenerate orthogonal geometry (or orthogonal geometry, for short) and how they relate to the group of isometries of that geometry.

Providing a nearly complete selection of up-to-date methods and results on block invariants with respect to their defect groups, this book covers the classical theory pioneered by Brauer, the modern theory of fusion systems introduced by Puig, the geometry of numbers developed by Minkowski, the classification of finite simple groups, and various computer assisted methods.

Groups are important because they measure symmetry.

The Abel Symposia volume at hand contains a collection of high-quality articles written by the world's leading experts, and addressing all mathematicians interested in advances in deterministic and stochastic dynamical systems, numerical analysis, and control theory.

Bringing together trust research, rhetoric, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this book formulates an analytical program for conceptualizing and defining trustworthiness as an empirical research object in social interaction.

This textbook provides an essential introduction to Lie groups, presenting the theory from its fundamental principles.

Comprehensive introduction to the theory of algebraic group schemes over fields, based on modern algebraic geometry, with few prerequisites.

This book describes the relation between profinite semigroups and symbolic dynamics.

Harmonic analysis is a venerable part of modern mathematics.

This work provides the first classification theory of matrix-valued symmetry breaking operators from principal series representations of a reductive group to those of its subgroup.

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The lectures in this volume discuss topics in statistical mechanics, the geometric and algebraic approaches to q-deformation theories, two-dimensional gravity and related problems of mathematical physics, including Vassiliev invariants and the Jones polynomials, the R-matrix with Z-symmetry, reflection equations and quantum algebra, W-geometry, braid linear algebra, holomorphic q-difference systems and q-Poincare algebra.

This volume critically evaluates more than a century of empirical research on the effectiveness of small, task-performing groups, and offers a fresh look at the costs and benefits of collaborative work arrangements.

This book is the first to be devoted entirely to fuzzy abstract algebra.

This volume provides an introduction to dessins d'enfants and embeddings of bipartite graphs in compact Riemann surfaces.

Traditionally, Lie theory is a tool to build mathematical models for physical systems.

The Event of Psychopoetics overviews and investigates the notion of psychopoetics, a sociopsychological event that involves re-creative slips and that emerges under certain cultural conditions and power relations in the context of everyday interaction and through certain modes of dialoguing and conversing.

Modern mathematics has become an essential part of today's physicist's arsenal and this book covers several relevant such topics.

A Lifetime of Communication explores the developmental processes that make for uniquely human change and growth.

This book provides a framework that sheds an illuminating light into the psyche of people involved in macro-level destructive intergroup conflicts, involving societies and ethnic groups, that take place continuously in various parts of the globe.

This volume contains research and expository content based on a wide variety of topics within modern number theory and arithmetic geometry.

This cutting-edge handbook examines moral psychology and behavior, uncovering layers of human morality through a comprehensive overview of topics and approaches.

A comprehensive treatment of the representation theory of finite groups of Lie type over a field of the defining prime characteristic.

This is the first in a series of three volumes dealing with important topics in algebra.

This book is an expanded version of the lectures given at the Nankai Mathematical Summer School in 1997.

This book provides a modern introduction to harmonic analysis and synthesis on topological groups.

This volume concerns the longstanding intellectual puzzle of how individuals overcome their biological, neural, and mental finitude to achieve sociality.

The Classic Edition of 'Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition', first published in 2006, includes a new introduction by the editors, describing the ongoing relevance of this volume in the context of future challenges for this vital field of study.

This book is based on the notes of the authors' seminar on algebraic and Lie groups held at the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow University in 1967/68.

Eine verständliche, konzise und immer flüssige Einführung in die Algebra, die insbesondere durch ihre sorgfältige didaktische Aufbereitung bei vielen Studenten Freunde finden wird.