John Baez lectures on Lie groups and Lie algebras

[koolmodee]

If you ever wanted to learn about Lie groups and Lie algebras but was frightened by the textbooks, there is great news. John Baez gives lectures this fall, http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/qg-fall2008/" .

 

[koolmodee]

Part two is online! Come on people, you have to enjoy this.

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/10/lie_theory_through_examples_2.html#more

John Baez is even planning writing a book on symmetry, using the material from these notes.

 

[matematikawan]

I can't find examples relating Lie theory to differential equations.

 

[koolmodee]

Lie theory is a huge subject. As I understand Baez concentrates in his course on the classification theory of Lie groups and their so called standard representations, which are matrices for the classical Lie groups.