Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein is Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sannio, Benevento. Fabio Scarabotti is Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. Filippo Tolli is Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Roma Tre University.

"This beautifully written new book is a welcome addition... It is almost entirely self-contained, only assuming some basic group theory and linear algebra, yet it takes one to the forefront of recent advances in the area. It would be entirely suitable for a single semester or year-long graduate course, as it is replete with examples and exercises of varying difficulty. I suspect it will also find its way on to the shelf as a valuable reference work for researchers in the field, as it is an excellent complement to books of Kleshchev, Sagan, James, and James and Kerber." David John Hemmer, Mathematical Reviews

• Preface; 1. Representation theory of finite groups; 2. The theory of Gelfand–Tsetlin bases; 3. The Okounkov–Vershik approach; 4. Symmetric functions; 5. Content evaluation and character theory; 6. The Littlewood–Richardson rule; 7. Finite dimensional *-algebras; 8. Schur–Weyl dualities and the partition algebra; Bibliography; Index.