title: Lectures on Lie Groups (Midway Reprints Series)
author: J. F. Adams
description: <DIV>"[<i>Lectures in Lie Groups</i>] fulfills its aim admirably and should be a useful reference for any mathematician who would like to learn the basic results for compact Lie groups. . . . The book is a well written basic text [and Adams] has done a service to the mathematical community."Irving Kaplansky</div>
zlib_text: Progress in Mathematics
  Volume 243
  Series Editors
  Hyman Bass
  Joseph Oesterl´e
  Alan Weinstein
  
  Studies in Lie Theory
  Dedicated to A. Joseph
  on his Sixtieth Birthday
  Joseph Bernstein
  Vladimir Hinich
  Anna Melnikov
  Editors
  Birkh¨auser
  Boston • Basel • Berlin
  
  Joseph Bernstein
  Tel Aviv University
  School of Mathematical Sciences
  Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978
  Israel
  Vladimir Hinich
  Anna Melnikov
  University of Haifa
  Department of Mathematics
  Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905
  Israel
  Mathematics Subject Classiﬁcations (2000): 12A50, 13N10, 14L30, 14R20, 16K40, 16S30, 16S32,
  16S36, 16S40, 16W35, 16W50, 17B35, 17B37, 17B56, 17B65, 17B69, 20C08, 20G10, 22D20, 22E35,
  22E50, 32C38, 33C45, 35A27, 53D17
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2005936729
  ISBN-10: 0-8176-4342-7
  e-ISBN: 0-8176-4478-4
  ISBN-13: 978-0-8176-4342-3
  Printed on acid-free paper.
  c⃝2006 Birkh¨auser Boston
  All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the writ-
  ten permission of the publisher (Birkh¨au