“This book is not a particularly useful book,” Weissman writes ... Weissman’s research involves number theory, representation theory, and geometry. He joined the UCSC faculty in 2006.

Representation theory was initially dismissed. Today, it’s central to much of mathematics. When representation theory emerged in the late 19th century, many mathematicians questioned its worth. In ...

REPRESENTATION theory is a subject of many aspects, having important contacts with several branches of mathematics and mathematical physics. Even if text-books were much commoner than they are ...

Abel Prize: pioneer of ‘smooth’ physics wins top maths award ‘Classical’ representation theory emerged in the late 1800s and became a mature subject in the 1930s. Kashiwara and other ...