10 questions linked to/from What's a good place to learn Lie groups?
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### Getting started with Lie Groups

I am looking for some material (e.g. references, books, notes) to get started with Lie Groups and Lie Algebra. My motivation is that I (eventually) want to understand the theory underpinning papers ...
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### Where does a Topology student go after Munkres?

Firstly I apologize if this is a bit of a soft question, it's hard for me to ask this quite concretely so I do apologize if this post doesn't seem like I'm asking something immediately. Let me ...
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### Why are skew-symmetric matrices of interest?

I am currently following a course on nonlinear algebra (topics include varieties, elimination, linear spaces, grassmannians etc.). Especially in the exercises we work a lot with skew-symmetric ...
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### Infinite group theory recommendations

What is a good book to start a journey in the field of infinite group theory ? I have already taken a first course in algebra where we studied the most important (finite) algebraic structures and I'm ...
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### Local Isomorphism on Topological Groups

I'm currently studying Lie Groups, and reading "Theory of Lie Groups I" by C. Chevalley. He talks about topological groups in chapter two. To be more precise, on page 38 he presents two examples in ...
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### Groups as symmetries, and question about Lie groups

I am just starting out learning about group theory (so perhaps looking at Lie groups is a bit premature, but I am not hoping to have an in-depth understanding of them...yet) and when I looked up Lie ...
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### Representing rotations using quaternions

I'm learning Unity and came across a situation where rotations are represented as Quaternions. I've heard that they where used in computer graphics, but never had to use them until now. What I can't ...
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### Best book to study Lie group theory

I have been using the concepts of Lie group, Lie algebra and some of its properties for quite a while now in various geometry courses, but I had to pick those concepts along the way because they are ...