Cartan geometries were the first examples of connections on a principal bundle. They seem to be almost unknown these days, in spite of the great beauty and conceptual power they confer on geometry. The aim of the present book is to fill the gap in the literature on differential geometry by the missing notion of Cartan connections. Although the author had in mind a book accessible to graduate students, potential readers would also include working differential geometers who would like to know more about what Cartan did, which was to give a notion of "espaces generalises" (= Cartan geometries) generalizing homogeneous spaces (= Klein geometries) in the same way that Riemannian geometry generalizes Euclidean geometry. In addition, physicists will be interested to see the fully satisfying way in which their gauge theory can be truly regarded as geometry.

Book Description "Lang's Algebra changed the way graduate algebra is taught, retaining classical topics but introducing language and ways of thinking from category theory and homological algebra. It has affected all subsequent graduate-level algebra books." NOTICES OF THE AMS "The author has an impressive knack for presenting the important and interesting ideas of algebra in just the right way, and he never gets bogged down in the dry formalism which pervades some parts of algebra." MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS This book is intended as a basic text for a one-year course in algebra at the graduate level, or as a useful reference for mathematicians and professionals who use higher-level algebra. It successfully addresses the basic concepts of algebra. For the revised third edition, the author has added exercises and made numerous corrections to the text. (From amazon.com)

Part of Preface to the second edition The main part of this book was written twenty years ago. The ideas and methods of symplectic geometry, developed in this book, have now found many applications in mathematical physics and in other domains of applied mathematics, as well as in pure mathematics itself. Especially, the theory of short wave asymptotic expansions has reached a very sophiscated level, with many important applications to optics, wave theory, acoustics, spectroscopy, and even chemistry; this development was parallel to the development of the theories of Lagrange and Legendre singularities, that is, of singularities of caustics and of wave fronts, of their topology and their perestroikas (in Russian metamorphoses were always called "perestroikas," as in "Morse perestroika" for the English "Morse surgery"; now that the word perestroika has become international, we may preserve the Russian term in translation and are not obliged to substitute "metamorphoses" for "perestroikas" when speaking of wave fronts, caustics, and so on.

《有限群的线性表示》是一部非常经典的介绍有限群线性表示的教程，原版曾多次修订重印，作者是当今法国最突出的数学家之一，他对理论数学有全面的了解，尤以著述清晰、明了闻名。《有限群的线性表示》是他写的为数不多的教科书之一，原文是法文(1971年版)，后出了德译本和英译本。《有限群的线性表示》是英译本的重印本。它篇幅不大，但深入浅出的介绍了有限群的线性表示，并给出了在量子化学等方面的应用，便于广大数学、物理、化学工作者初学时阅读和参考。