This book explores the classical and beautiful character theory of finite groups. It does it by using some rudiments of the language of categories. Originally emerging from two courses offered at Peking University (PKU), primarily for...

toComplexRe ectionGroups and Their Braid Groups 123 Michel Broué Université Paris Diderot Paris 7 UFR de Mathématiques 175 Rue du Chevaleret 75013 Paris France broue@math. jussieu. fr ISBN: 978-3-642-11174-7 e-ISBN: 978-3-642-11175-4...

During the springs of 2011 and 2012, the author was invited by Peking University to give an advanced undergraduate algebra course (once a week over two months each year). This book was written during and for that course. By no way does...