ENGLISH

Classical Invariant Theory

By Peter J. Olver

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
9780521558211, 0521558212, 0521552435
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
9 MB (9531436 bytes)
Series
London Mathematical Society student texts 44
Edition
First Edition
Pages
151\151
Time added
2010-05-31 00:48:14

Description

Except for some new terms ( transvectants, Hessians, Syzygies, special Euclidean groups)
and notation ( I haven't figured out exactly what he means by A^(-T) yet, inverse transpose?),
it is a well written book that revives the ancient Hilbert
invariant theory and translates that into
modern terms. I was hooked when I realized the connection to the elliptic invariant.
It has this neat section on Gordon's method of digraphs as algebraic invariants.
I really think some of this could be made where it could be taught to undergraduates without calculus.
For me the treatment of invariants tied a lot of loose ends together.

Similar books