Books on Representation Theory

T.Brocker and T. tom Dieck: Representations of compact Lie groups
Graduate Texts in Mathematics 98
Springer-Verlag 1985
ISBN 0 387 13678 9 (hardback)
W. Fulton and J. Harris: Representation theory
Graduate Texts in Mathematics 129
Springer 1991
ISBN 3 540 97495 4 (paperback)
ISBN 3 540 97527 6 (hardback)
A tempting introduction to representation theory.
J.E. Humphreys: Introduction to Lie algebras and representation theory
Graduate Texts in Mathematics 9
Springer 1972
ISBN 3 540 90052 7 (paperback)
ISBN 3 540 90053 5 (hardback)
This is where most representation theorists get started.

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