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    Introduction to Representation Theory

    As taught in: Fall 2008

    Portait of Ferdinand Georg Frobenius.

    Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849 - 1917), one of the founding fathers of representation theory.

    Instructors:

    Prof. Pavel Etingof

    MIT Course Number:

    18.712

    Level:

    Undergraduate

    Course Features

    Course Description

    This is a new course, whose goal is to give an undergraduate-level introduction to representation theory (of groups, Lie algebras, and associative algebras). Representation theory is an area of mathematics which, roughly speaking, studies symmetry in linear spaces.