For mathematicians working in group theory, the study of the many infinite-dimensional groups has been carried out in an individual and non-coherent way. For the first time, these apparently disparate groups have been placed together, in order to construct the `big picture'. This book successfully gives an account of this - and shows how such seemingly dissimilar types such as the various groups of operators on Hilbert spaces, or current groups are shown to belong
to a bigger entitity. This is a ground-breaking text will be important reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate mathematicians.
- ISBN10 0198511868
- ISBN13 9780198511861
- Publish Date 11 July 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Clarendon Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English