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050 0 0 _aQC20.7.G76
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082 0 0 _a512/.55
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100 1 _aStreet, Ross,
_d1945-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aQuantum groups :
_ba path to current algebra /
_cRoss Street ; technical editor, Ross Moore.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2007.
300 _a1 online resource (xviii, 141 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aAustralian Mathematical Society lecture series ;
_v19
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aAlgebra has moved well beyond the topics discussed in standard undergraduate texts on 'modern algebra'. Those books typically dealt with algebraic structures such as groups, rings and fields: still very important concepts! However Quantum Groups: A Path to Current Algebra is written for the reader at ease with at least one such structure and keen to learn algebraic concepts and techniques. A key to understanding these new developments is categorical duality. A quantum group is a vector space with structure. Part of the structure is standard: a multiplication making it an 'algebra'. Another part is not in those standard books at all: a comultiplication, which is dual to multiplication in the precise sense of category theory, making it a 'coalgebra'. While coalgebras, bialgebras and Hopf algebras have been around for half a century, the term 'quantum group', along with revolutionary new examples, was launched by Drinfel'd in 1986.
650 0 _aQuantum groups.
650 0 _aAlgebra.
700 1 _aMoore, Ross,
_eeditor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521695244
830 0 _aAustralian Mathematical Society lecture series ;
_v19.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511618505
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