Representation Theory of Finite Groups artist Tom Tierney has painstakingly

artist Tom Tierney has painstakingly recreated the Gibson Girl as a paper doll

and sketching

James Branch Cabell

Thermodynamic and molecular theories of heat are developed side by side

The remaining five chapters discuss continuous groups

Representation Theory of Finite Groups artist Tom Tierney has painstakinglyThis volume contains a concise exposition of the theory of finite groups, including the theory of modular representations. The rudiments of linear algebra and knowledge of the elementary concepts of group theory are useful, if not entirely indispensable, prerequisites for reading this book; most of the other requisites, such as the theory of p adic fields, are developed in the text. After an introductory chapter on group characters, repression