李群論

《李群論(英文版)》內容簡介：古典李群（變換群）及其在微分方程、微分幾何、力學之應用。李代數是挪威數學家S.李（數學家李）在19世紀後期研究連續變換群時引進的一個數學概念，它與李群的研究密切相關。在更早些時候，它曾以含蓄的形式出現在力學中，其先決條件是“無窮小變換”概念，這至少可追溯到微積分的發端時代。

Claude Chevalley (1909-1984) served on the faculty of Princeton University and was resident at the Institute for Advanced Study. He was a member of the Bourbaki and was awarded the Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society.

Review:

"Chevalley's most important contribution to mathematics is certainly his work on group theory . . . [Theory of Lie Groups] was the first systematic exposition of the foundations of Lie group theory consistently adopting the global viewpoint, based on the notion of analytic manifold. This book remained the basic reference on Lie groups for at least two decades."--Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society