Corrado De Concini, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Rome, Italy.Claudio Procesi, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Rome, Italy.

The present book is a nice and introductory reference to graduate students or researchers who are working in the field of representation and invariant theory." — Yin Chen, Zentralblatt MATH"The choices made by the authors permit them to highlight the main results and also to keep the material within the reach of an interested reader. At the same time, the book remains open-ended with precise pointers to the literature on other approaches and the cases not treated here." — Felipe Zaldivar, MAA Reviews

• Introduction and preliminariesThe classical theoryQuasi-hereditary algebrasThe Schur algebraMatrix functions and invariantsRelationsThe Schur algebra of a free algebraBibliographyGeneral indexSymbol index.

Corrado De Concini, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Rome, Italy.Claudio Procesi, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Rome, Italy.

The present book is a nice and introductory reference to graduate students or researchers who are working in the field of representation and invariant theory." — Yin Chen, Zentralblatt MATH"The choices made by the authors permit them to highlight the main results and also to keep the material within the reach of an interested reader. At the same time, the book remains open-ended with precise pointers to the literature on other approaches and the cases not treated here." — Felipe Zaldivar, MAA Reviews

• Introduction and preliminariesThe classical theoryQuasi-hereditary algebrasThe Schur algebraMatrix functions and invariantsRelationsThe Schur algebra of a free algebraBibliographyGeneral indexSymbol index.