Product Description: This book presents a comprehensive treatment of important new ideas on Dirac operators and Dirac cohomology. Using Dirac operators as a unifying theme, the authors demonstrate how some of the most important results in representation theory fit together when viewed from this perspective...read more

Product Description: An expanded version of the lectures given at the Nankai Mathematical Summer School in 1997. It provides an introduction to Lie groups, Lie algebras and their representations and introduces some directions of current research for graduate students who have little specialized knowledge in representation theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)