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Title: Excellent Introduction to Lie Algebras
Review: Humphreys' book on Lie algebras is rightly considered the standard text. Very thorough, covering the essential classical algebras, basic results on nilpotent and solvable Lie algebras, classification, etc. up to and including representations. Don't let the relatively small number of pages fool you; the book is quite dense, and so even covering the first 30 pages is a nice accomplishment for a student. Small caveat, the notation might be a bit confusing until you get used to it, but this is a common problem due to having both a Lie and a matrix product floating around, and is not a fault of the text. There is also a nice selection of exercises, between 5 and 10 per section.Highly recommended; every mathematician should know the basics of Lie algebras.
