This book is a collection of a series of lectures given by Prof. V Kac at Tata Institute, India in Dec '85 and Jan '86. These lectures focus on the idea of a hi

The second edition of this book incorporates, as its first part, the largely unchanged text of the first edition, while its second part is the collection of lec

This book is a collection of a series of lectures given by Prof. V Kac at Tata Institute, India in Dec '85 and Jan '86. These lectures focus on the idea of a hi

The third, substantially revised edition of a monograph concerned with Kac-Moody algebras, a particular class of infinite-dimensional Lie albegras, and their re