{"product_id":"9783540428527","title":"Lecture Notes in Mathematics","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLecture Notes in Mathematics\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eRunde, Volker\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe notion of amenability has its origins in the beginnings of modern measure theory: Does a finitely additive set function exist which is invariant under a certain group action? Since the 1940s, amenability has become an important concept in abstract harmonic analysis (or rather, more generally, in the theory of semitopological semigroups). In 1972, B.E. Johnson showed that the amenability of a locally compact group G can be characterized in terms of the Hochschild cohomology of its group algebra L^1(G): this initiated the theory of amenable Banach algebras. Since then, amenability has penetrated other branches of mathematics, such as von Neumann algebras, operator spaces, and even differential geometry. \u003cb\u003eLectures on\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAmenability\u003c\/b\u003e introduces second year graduate students to this fascinating area of modern mathematics and leads them to a level from where they can go on to read original papers on the subject. Numerous exercises are interspersed in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2001-12-04\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783540428527\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/b82937\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 302\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Berlin Heidelberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45369772703884,"sku":"9783540428527","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783540428527.jpg?v=1775674763","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783540428527","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}