Noncommutative Character Theory Of The Symmetric Group

- A new uniform and transparent approach at undergraduate level to character theory of the symmetric group- First account of the material in book form- Introduction to the Malvenuto-Reutenauer algebra of permutations and related combinatorial Hopf algebras- A new detailed and complete treatment of the Robinson-Schensted correspondence including the results of Schutzenberger, Knuth and Greene