Download or read book Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Some of Their Applications written by Robert Gilmore and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2006-01-04 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An opening discussion of introductory concepts leads to explorations of the classical groups, continuous groups and Lie groups, and Lie groups and Lie algebras. Some simple but illuminating examples are followed by examinations of classical algebras, Lie algebras and root spaces, root spaces and Dynkin diagrams, real forms, and contractions and expansions.