Table of Contents

Basic constructions. On nilpotency and colvability. Cartan subalgebras. Lie algebras with non-degenerate Killing form. The classification of the simple Lie algebras. Universal enveloping algebras. Finitely presented Lie algebras. Representations of semisimple Lie algebras. On associative algebras. Bibliography. Index of Symbols. Index of Terminology. Index of Algorithms.

Reviews

"....a book that will be useful for experts, as well as for interested researchers from other fields of mathematical physics.European Mathematical Society NewsletterThis book presents both the Lie algebra theory and algorithms for computing much of the basic structure of Lie algebras. It is one of the first books which combines both these aspects in one volume. The book is well written and the material is clearly presented." --Mathematical Reviews