Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849 - 1917), one of the founding fathers of representation theory. Photo from Wikipedia.
Instructor(s)
Prof. Pavel Etingof
MIT Course Number
18.712
As Taught In
Fall 2010
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
The goal of this course 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.
