These volumes form an authoritative statement of the current state of research in Operator Algebras.

The articles collected here are the texts of the invited lectures given at the Eighth British Combinatorial Conference held at University College, Swansea.

The Amerindian peoples of Guiana, the geographical region of north-east South America, have long been recognized as forming a distinct variety of the tropical forest culture. In this book, Peter Riviere employs a comparative perspective to reveal that Guianan societies, generally characterized as socially fluid and amorphous, are in fact much more highly structured than they first appear, and he identifies certain common patterns of social organization that result from sets of individual choices and relationships. By contrasting the characteristics of Guianan society with those from elsewhere...

Stiefel manifolds are an interesting family of spaces much studied by algebraic topologists.

The theory of prehomogeneous vector spaces is a relatively new subject although its origin can be traced back through the works of Siegel to Gauss. This is the first book on this topic, and represents the author's deep study of prehomogeneous vector spaces. Here the author's aim is to generalize Shintani's approach from the viewpoint of geometric invariant theory, and in some special cases he also determines not only the pole structure but also the principal part of the zeta function.

This book presents a theory motivated by the spaces LP, 0 p

This book is a self-contained account of the theory of classgroups of group rings.

This is the expanded notes of a course intended to introduce students specializing in mathematics to some of the central ideas of traditional economics.

This book presents an account of several conjectures arising in commutative algebra from the pioneering work of Serre and Auslander-Buchsbaum.

This book is concerned with subgroups of groups of the form GL(n, D) for some division ring D