Description

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This book is devoted to algebraic models and their applications. It presents a simple, but thorough, pedagogic approach, starting from the most elementary ideas and building up to the most recent results of advanced theories. The book is designed for a graduate level treatment.

About the Author

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Richard F. Casten was educated at the College of the Holy Cross and Yale University. He received the Humboldt Prize in 1983, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Currently he is Senior Scientist and Nuclear Structure Physics Group Leader at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA. Pertti O. Lipas, Department of Physics, University of Jyvaskyla, SF-40351 Jyvaskyla, Finland. David D. Warner, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, CheshireWA4 4AD, UK. Takaharu Otsuka, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan. Kris Heyde, Institute for Nuclear Physics, Proeftuinstraat 86, B-9000 Gent, Belgium