由韋爾編著的《典型群》討論了對稱，全線性，正交和辛群，以及它們的不同的不變性和表示論，運用代數的基本觀點闡釋群的不**質，恰到好處地運用分析和拓撲。書中也包括了矩陣代數，半群和交換子和自旋子，這些對於很好地理解量子力學的群理論結構很有幫助。目次：引入；向量不變量；矩陣代數和群環；對稱群和**線性群；正交群；對稱群；特征；不變基本理論；矩陣代數綜述；補充。
讀者對像：數學專業的本科生，研究生和相關的科研人員。

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
CHAPTER Ⅰ INTRODUCTION
I. Fields, rings, ideals, polynomials
2. Vector space
3. Orthogonal transformations, Euclidean vector geometry
4. Groups, Klein's Erlanger program. Quantities
5. Invariants and covariants
CHAPTER Ⅱ VECTOR INVARIANTS
1. Remembrance of things past
2. The main propositions of the theory of invariants
A. FIRST MAIN THEOREM
3. First example: the symmetric group
4. Capelli's identity
5. Reduction of the first main problem by means of Capelli's identities
6. Second example: the unimodular group SL(n)
7. Extension theorem. Third example: the group of step transformations
8. A general method for including contravariant arguments
9. Fourth example: the orthogonal group
B. A CLOSE-UP OF THE ORTHOGONAL GROUP
10. Cayley's rational parametrization of the orthogonal group
11, Formal orthogonal invariants
12. Arbitrary metric ground form
13. The infinitesimal standpoint
C. THE SECOND MAIN THEOREM
14. Statement of the proposition for the unimodular group
15. Capelli's formal congruence
16. Proof of the second main theorem for the unimodular group
17. The second main theorem for the unimodular group
CHAPTER Ⅲ MATRIC ALGEBRAS AND GROUP RINGS
A. THEORY OF FULLY REDUCIBLE MATRIC ALGEBRAS
1. Fundamental notions concerning matric algebras. The Sehur lemma
2. Preliminaries
3. Representations of a simple algebra
4. Wedderburn's theorem
5. The fully reducible matric algebra and its commutator algebra
B. THE RING OF A FINITE GROUP AND ITS COMMUTATOR ALGEBRA
6. Stating the problem
7. Full reducibility of the group ring
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8. Formal lemmas
9. Reciprocity between group ring and commutator algebra
10. A generalization
CHAPTER Ⅳ THE SYMMETRIC GROUP AND THE FULL LINEAR GROUP
1. Representation of a finite group in an algebraically closed field
2. The Young symmetrizers. A combinatorial lemma
3. The irreducible representations of the symmetric group
4. Decomposition of tensor space
5. Quantities. Expansion
CHAPTER Ⅴ THE ORTHOGONAL GROUP
A. THE ENVELOPING ALGEBRA AND THE ORTHOGONAL IDEAL
1. Vector invariants of the unimodular group again
2. The enveloping algebra of the orthogonal group
3. Giving the result its formal setting
4. The orthogonal prime ideal
5. An abstract algebra related to the orthogonal group
B. THE IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS
6. Decomposition by the trace operation
7. The irreducible representations of the full orthogonal group
C. THE PROPER ORTHOGONAL GROUP
8. Clifford's theorem
9. Representations of the proper orthogonal group
CHAPTER Ⅵ THE SYMPLECTIC GROUP
I. Vector invariants of the symplectic group
2. Parametrization and unitary restriction
3. Embedding algebra and representations of the symplec_tic group
CHAPTER Ⅶ CHARACTERS
I. Preliminaries about unitary transformations
2. Character for symmetrization or alternation alone
3. Averaging over a group
4. The volume element of the unitary group
5. Computation of the characters
6. The characters of GL(n). Enumeration of covariants
7, A purely algebraic approach
8. Characters of the symplectic group
9. Characters of the orthogonal group
10. Decomposition and X-multiplication
11. The Poincare polynomial
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CHAPTER Ⅷ GENERAL THEORY OF INVARIANTS
A. ALGEBRAIC PAnT
i. Classic invariants and invariants of quantics. Gram's thcorem
2. The symbolic method
3. The binary quadratic
4. Irrational methods
5. Side remarks
6. Hilbert's theorem on polynomial ideals
7. Proof of the first main theorem for GL(n)
8. The adjunction argument
B. DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL METHODS
9. Group germ and Lie algebras
10. Differential equations for invariants. Absolute and relative invariants
11. The unitarian trick
12. The connectivity of the classical groups
13. Spinors
14. Finite integrity basis for invariants of compact groups
15. The first main theorem for finite groups
16. Invariant differentials and Betti numbers of a compact Lie group
CHAPTER Ⅸ MATRIC ALGEBRAS RESUMED
I. Automorphisms
2. A lemma on multiplication
3. Products of simple algebras
4. Adjunction
CHAPTER Ⅹ SUPPLEMENTS
A. SUPPLEMENT TO CHAPTER Ⅱ, §§9-13, AND CHAPTER Ⅵ, §1, CONCERNING INFINITESIMAL VECTOR INVARIANTS
1. An identity for infinitesimal orthogonal invariants
2. First Main Theorem for the orthogonal group
3. The same for the symplectic group
B. SUPPLEMENT TO CHAPTER V, §3, AND CHAPTER VI, §§2 AND 3, CONCERNING THE SYMPLECTIC AND ORTHOGONAL IDEALS
4. A proposition on full reduction
5. The sympleetic ideal
6. The full and the proper orthogonal ideals
C. SUPPLEMENT TO CHAPTER Ⅷ, §§7-8, CONCERNING.
7. A modified proof of the main theorem on invariants
D. SUPPLEMENT TO CHAPTER Ⅸ, §4, ABOUT EXTENSION OF THE GROUND FIELD
8. Effect of field extension on a division algebra
ERRATA AND ADDENDA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY, MAINLY FOR THE YEARS 1940--1945
INDEX