Representations

Author : Stuart Hall
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761954323
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representation written by Stuart Hall and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-04-08 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as `systems of representation'. Individual chapters explore: representation as a signifying practice in a rich diversity of social contexts and institutional sites; the use of photography in the construction of national identity and culture; other cultures in ethnographic museums; fantasies of the racialized `Other' in popular media, film and image; the construction of masculine identities in discourses of consumer culture and advertising; and the gendering of narratives in television soap operas.

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253337245
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meaning and Mental Representations written by Umberto Eco and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ..". an excellent collection... " -- Journal of Language Social Psychology An important collection of original essays by well-known scholars debating the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language.

Author : Julie Barnes
Publisher : MAA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780883855911
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coloring Book of Complex Function Representations written by Julie Barnes and published by MAA Press. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever seen a mathematical object that was so intriguing that anyone, regardless of mathematical background, could appreciate its aesthetic beauty? If so, did you stop to color it? Now is your chance. Explore the beauty of mathematics in this collection if intricate pictures related to complex-valued functions. Any of these images could pass for designs found in some of the many coloring books for adults seen in stores today and are displayed here for you to color. While looking at the coloring pages, you can read about the author's quest to find interesting images. Their tale includes expeditions on the complex plane, work with families of complex functions, visits to Julia sets, unexpected results from a typo, random explorations, and a final send-off from a well-known cartoon character. Grab your colored pencils and enjoy coloring these functions. There are no incorrect ways to color, and consequently, there are no answers in the back of the book!

Author : Harm Derksen
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470425564
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Quiver Representations written by Harm Derksen and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to the representation theory of quivers and finite dimensional algebras. It gives a thorough and modern treatment of the algebraic approach based on Auslander-Reiten theory as well as the approach based on geometric invariant theory. The material in the opening chapters is developed starting slowly with topics such as homological algebra, Morita equivalence, and Gabriel's theorem. Next, the book presents Auslander-Reiten theory, including almost split sequences and the Auslander-Reiten transform, and gives a proof of Kac's generalization of Gabriel's theorem. Once this basic material is established, the book goes on with developing the geometric invariant theory of quiver representations. The book features the exposition of the saturation theorem for semi-invariants of quiver representations and its application to Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. In the final chapters, the book exposes tilting modules, exceptional sequences and a connection to cluster categories. The book is suitable for a graduate course in quiver representations and has numerous exercises and examples throughout the text. The book will also be of use to experts in such areas as representation theory, invariant theory and algebraic geometry, who want to learn about applications of quiver representations to their fields.

Author : Jerry A. Fodor
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262560275
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representations written by Jerry A. Fodor and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays will shape discussion in the philosophy of psychology for years to come. A collection of eleven essays dealing with methodological and empirical issues in cognitive science and in the philosophy of mind, Representations convincingly connects philosophical speculation to concrete empirical research.One of the outstanding methodological issues dealt with is the status of functionalism considered as an alternative to behavioristic and physicalistic accounts. of mental states and properties. The other issue is the status of reductionism considered as an account of the relation between the psychological and physical sciences. The first chapters present the main lines of argument which have made functionalism the currently favored philosophical approach to ontology of the mental.The outlines of a psychology of propositional attitudes which emerges from consideration of current developments in cognitive science are contained in the remaining essays.Not all of these essays are re-presentations. The new introductory essay seeks to present an overview and gives some detailed proposals about the contribution that functionalism makes to the solutions of problems about intentionality. The concluding essay, also not previously published, is a sustained examination of the relation between theories about the structure of concepts and theories about how they are learned. Finally, the essay "Three cheers for propositional attitudes", a critical examination of some of D. C. Dennett's ideas, has been completely rewritten for this volume. A Bradford Book.

Author : Barry Simon
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821804537
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representations of Finite and Compact Groups written by Barry Simon and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry Simon, I.B.M. Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, is the author of several books, including such classics as ""Methods of Mathematical Physics"" (with M. Reed) and ""Functional Integration and Quantum Physics"". This new book, based on courses given at Princeton, Caltech, ETH-Zurich, and other universities, is an introductory textbook on representation theory.According to the author, 'Two facets distinguish my approach. First, this book is relatively elementary, and second, while the bulk of the books on the subject is written from the point of view of an algebraist or a geometer, this book is written with an analytical flavor'. The exposition in the book centers around the study of representation of certain concrete classes of groups, including permutation groups and compact semi simple Lie groups. It culminates in the complete proof of the Weyl character formula for representations of compact Lie groups and the Frobenius formula for characters of permutation groups. Extremely well tailored both for a one-year course in representation theory and for independent study, this book is an excellent introduction to the subject which, according to the author, is unique in having 'so much innate beauty so close to the surface'.

Author : Michael Elad
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441970118
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sparse and Redundant Representations written by Michael Elad and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long long time ago, echoing philosophical and aesthetic principles that existed since antiquity, William of Ockham enounced the principle of parsimony, better known today as Ockham’s razor: “Entities should not be multiplied without neces sity. ” This principle enabled scientists to select the ”best” physical laws and theories to explain the workings of the Universe and continued to guide scienti?c research, leadingtobeautifulresultsliketheminimaldescriptionlength approachtostatistical inference and the related Kolmogorov complexity approach to pattern recognition. However, notions of complexity and description length are subjective concepts anddependonthelanguage“spoken”whenpresentingideasandresults. The?eldof sparse representations, that recently underwent a Big Bang like expansion, explic itly deals with the Yin Yang interplay between the parsimony of descriptions and the “language” or “dictionary” used in them, and it became an extremely exciting area of investigation. It already yielded a rich crop of mathematically pleasing, deep and beautiful results that quickly translated into a wealth of practical engineering applications. You are holding in your hands the ?rst guide book to Sparseland, and I am sure you’ll ?nd in it both familiar and new landscapes to see and admire, as well as ex cellent pointers that will help you ?nd further valuable treasures. Enjoy the journey to Sparseland! Haifa, Israel, December 2009 Alfred M. Bruckstein vii Preface This book was originally written to serve as the material for an advanced one semester (fourteen 2 hour lectures) graduate course for engineering students at the Technion, Israel.

Author : Alexander Kirillov Jr.
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470423073
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quiver Representations and Quiver Varieties written by Alexander Kirillov Jr. and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to the theory of quiver representations and quiver varieties, starting with basic definitions and ending with Nakajima's work on quiver varieties and the geometric realization of Kac–Moody Lie algebras. The first part of the book is devoted to the classical theory of quivers of finite type. Here the exposition is mostly self-contained and all important proofs are presented in detail. The second part contains the more recent topics of quiver theory that are related to quivers of infinite type: Coxeter functor, tame and wild quivers, McKay correspondence, and representations of Euclidean quivers. In the third part, topics related to geometric aspects of quiver theory are discussed, such as quiver varieties, Hilbert schemes, and the geometric realization of Kac–Moody algebras. Here some of the more technical proofs are omitted; instead only the statements and some ideas of the proofs are given, and the reader is referred to original papers for details. The exposition in the book requires only a basic knowledge of algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras. Some sections use the language of derived categories; however, the use of this language is reduced to a minimum. The many examples make the book accessible to graduate students who want to learn about quivers, their representations, and their relations to algebraic geometry and Lie algebras.

Author : Graham J. Leuschke
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821875817
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cohen-Macaulay Representations written by Graham J. Leuschke and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive treatment of the representation theory of maximal Cohen-Macaulay (MCM) modules over local rings. This topic is at the intersection of commutative algebra, singularity theory, and representations of groups and algebras. Two introductory chapters treat the Krull-Remak-Schmidt Theorem on uniqueness of direct-sum decompositions and its failure for modules over local rings. Chapters 3-10 study the central problem of classifying the rings with only finitely many indecomposable MCM modules up to isomorphism, i.e., rings of finite CM type. The fundamental material--ADE/simple singularities, the double branched cover, Auslander-Reiten theory, and the Brauer-Thrall conjectures--is covered clearly and completely. Much of the content has never before appeared in book form. Examples include the representation theory of Artinian pairs and Burban-Drozd's related construction in dimension two, an introduction to the McKay correspondence from the point of view of maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules, Auslander-Buchweitz's MCM approximation theory, and a careful treatment of nonzero characteristic. The remaining seven chapters present results on bounded and countable CM type and on the representation theory of totally reflexive modules.

Author : Eng-Chye Tan
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814483087
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representations of Real and P-Adic Groups written by Eng-Chye Tan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004-04-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore hosted a research program on “Representation Theory of Lie Groups” from July 2002 to January 2003. As part of the program, tutorials for graduate students and junior researchers were given by leading experts in the field. This invaluable volume collects the expanded lecture notes of those tutorials. The topics covered include uncertainty principles for locally compact abelian groups, fundamentals of representations of p-adic groups, the Harish–Chandra–Howe local character expansion, classification of the square-integrable representations modulo cuspidal data, Dirac cohomology and Vogan's conjecture, multiplicity-free actions and Schur–Weyl–Howe duality. The lecturers include Tomasz Przebinda from the University of Oklahoma, USA; Gordan Savin from the University of Utah, USA; Stephen DeBacker from Harvard University, USA; Marko Tadić from the University of Zagreb, Croatia; Jing-Song Huang from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong; Pavle Pandǽić from the University of Zagreb, Croatia; Chal Benson and Gail Ratcliff from East Carolina University, USA; and Roe Goodman from Rutgers University, USA. Contents:Three Uncertainty Principles for an Abelian Locally Compact Group (T Przebinda)Lectures on Representations of p-Adic Groups (G Savin)Lectures on Harmonic Analysis for Reductive p-Adic Groups (S DeBacker)On Classification of Some Classes of Irreducible Representations of Classical Groups (M Tadić)Dirac Operators in Representation Theory (J-S Huang & P Pandǽić)On Multiplicity-Free Actions (C Benson & G Ratcliff)Multiplicity-Free Spaces and Schur–Weyl–Howe Duality (R Goodman) Readership: Graduate students and researchers in the areas of representation theory, harmonic analysis and invariant theory. Keywords:Representation Theory;p-Adic Groups;Real Reductive Groups;Unitary Representations;Multiplicity-Free Actions