• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Compact groups: the work of Weyl; 3. Unitary representations of locally compact groups; 4. Parabolic induction, principal series representations, and their characters; 5. Representations of the Lie algebra; 6. The Plancherel formula: character form; 7. Invariant eigendistributions; 8. Harmonic analysis of the Schwartz space; Appendix 1. Functional analysis; Appendix 2. Topological groups; Appendix 3. Lie groups and Lie algebras; References; Index.

"...expository writing traces the historical development of the subject and makes this a very readable account." American Mathematical Monthly

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Compact groups: the work of Weyl; 3. Unitary representations of locally compact groups; 4. Parabolic induction, principal series representations, and their characters; 5. Representations of the Lie algebra; 6. The Plancherel formula: character form; 7. Invariant eigendistributions; 8. Harmonic analysis of the Schwartz space; Appendix 1. Functional analysis; Appendix 2. Topological groups; Appendix 3. Lie groups and Lie algebras; References; Index.

"...expository writing traces the historical development of the subject and makes this a very readable account." American Mathematical Monthly

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Compact groups: the work of Weyl; 3. Unitary representations of locally compact groups; 4. Parabolic induction, principal series representations, and their characters; 5. Representations of the Lie algebra; 6. The Plancherel formula: character form; 7. Invariant eigendistributions; 8. Harmonic analysis of the Schwartz space; Appendix 1. Functional analysis; Appendix 2. Topological groups; Appendix 3. Lie groups and Lie algebras; References; Index.

"...expository writing traces the historical development of the subject and makes this a very readable account." American Mathematical Monthly