The master of the science fiction novel serves up a collection of twenty-five contemporary short stories, including seven previously published and eighteen never-before-published tales--that probe the depths of human experience and relationships. Reprint.[...]

This book is based on several courses given by the authors since 1966. It introduces the reader to the representation theory of compact Lie groups. We have chosen a geometrical and analytical approach since we feel that this is the easiest way to motivate and establish the theory and to indicate rel[...]