TY - BOOK ID - 78089923 TI - An introduction to topological groups PY - 1974 VL - 15 SN - 1139883658 1107269784 110726314X 1107267773 1107266718 1107359910 9781107266711 9781107359918 1299749178 9781299749177 0521205271 9780521205276 9781139883658 9781107269781 9781107267770 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Topological groups. KW - Groups, Topological KW - Continuous groups UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78089923 AB - Graduate students in many branches of mathematics need to know something about topological groups and the Haar integral to enable them to understand applications in their own fields. In this introduction to the subject, Professor Higgins covers the basic theorems they are likely to need, assuming only some elementary group theory. The book is based on lecture courses given for the London M.Sc. degree in 1969 and 1972, and the treatment is more algebraic than usual, reflecting the interests of the author and his audience. The volume ends with an informal account of one important application of the Haar integral, to the representation theory of compact groups, and suggests further reading on this and similar topics. ER -