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The Symmetric Group
Bruce E. Sagan
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Description for The Symmetric Group
Paperback. Series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 402.
I have been very gratified by the response to the first edition, which has resulted in it being sold out. This put some pressure on me to come out with a second edition and now, finally, here it is. The original text has stayed much the same, the major change being in the treatment of the hook formula which is now based on the beautiful Novelli-Pak-Stoyanovskii bijection (NPS 97]. I have also added a chapter on applications of the material from the first edition. This includes Stanley's theory of differential posets (Stn 88, Stn 90] and Fomin's related concept of ... Read more
I have been very gratified by the response to the first edition, which has resulted in it being sold out. This put some pressure on me to come out with a second edition and now, finally, here it is. The original text has stayed much the same, the major change being in the treatment of the hook formula which is now based on the beautiful Novelli-Pak-Stoyanovskii bijection (NPS 97]. I have also added a chapter on applications of the material from the first edition. This includes Stanley's theory of differential posets (Stn 88, Stn 90] and Fomin's related concept of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Graduate Texts in Mathematics
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441928696
SKU
V9781441928696
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99-15
Reviews for The Symmetric Group
From the reviews of the second edition: "This work is an introduction to the representation theory of the symmetric group. Unlike other books on the subject this text deals with the symmetric group from three different points of view: general representation theory, combinatorial algorithms and symmetric functions. ... This book is a digestible text for ... Read more