TY - BOOK AU - Gelfand, I. M. [...et.al.] AU - Gelfand , I.M TI - Representation theory T2 - 69 SN - 0521289815 U1 - 001.51 PY - 1982/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge Univesity Press KW - Representation theory N1 - The unifying theme of this collection of papers by the very creative Russian mathematician I. M. Gelfand and his co-workers is the representation theory of groups and lattices. Two of the papers were inspired by application to theoretical physics; the others are pure mathematics though all the papers will interest mathematicians at quite opposite ends of the subject. Dr. G. Segal and Professor C-M. Ringel have written introductions to the papers which explain the background, put them in perspective and make them accessible to those with no specialist knowledge in the area ER -