Download or read book The Representation Theory of the Symmetric Group written by Gordon Douglas James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-12-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Representation Theory of the Symmetric Group provides an account of both the ordinary and modular representation theory of the symmetric groups. The range of applications of this theory is vast, varying from theoretical physics, through combinatories to the study of polynomial identity algebras; and new uses are still being found.