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Seminario del 2008
2008
09 settembre
Years ago representation theory was a very specialized field,
and very few non-specialists had much interest in it. This
situation has changed profoundly in recent times. Due to
the efforts of people like Gelfand, Harish-Chandra, Lang-
lands, Witten, and others, it has come to occupy a central
place in contemporary mathematics and theoretical
physics.
This talk takes a brief look at the myriad ways that
representations of groups enters mathematics and physics. It
turns out that the evolution of this subject is tied up with
the evolution of the concept of space itself and the classifi
cation of the groups of symmetries of space.
This talk takes a brief look at the myriad ways that
representations of groups enters mathematics and physics. It
turns out that the evolution of this subject is tied up with
the evolution of the concept of space itself and the
classification of the groups of symmetries of space.