This classic monograph on representation theory and the symmetric group is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of mathematics. The Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society hailed Daniel Edwin Rutherford's treatment as -a long overdue account of Young's representation theory of the symmetric group, - noting that -many of Young's complicated proofs have been simplified through a free use of mathematical induction.-
Starting with an elementary overview of the theory of the symmetric group, the book proceeds to an examination of Young's formula, followed by...