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Classical Invariant Theory

By Peter J. Olver

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
9780521558211, 0521558212, 0521552435
LCC
QA201 .O48 1999
Open Library ID
OL372101M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
10 MB (10342006 bytes)
Series
London Mathematical Society student texts 44
Edition
First Edition
Pages
151\151
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

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.

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