1 “.... The English mathematicians G.N. Watson and B.M. Wilson began this task in 1929, but although they devoted...”

2 Table of Contents: “... prime numbers. The subject began with Eratosthenes in antiquity, took on new shape with Legendre's form...”

3 “...The theory of unitary group representations began with finite groups, and blossomed...”

4 “... began with the fundamentals of group cohomology, and then investigated the structure of cohomology rings...”

5 “... not. Almost a decade after Ramanujan's death in 1920, G.N. Watson and B.M. Wilson began to edit his notebooks...”

6 “... and Their Fundamental Domains." When I began work on it in 1977, I would probably have stopped immediately if someone...”

7 “... in algebra and to provide a rich source of examples and exercises. Studying group theory began in the late...”

8 “... and cryptography. The WIN conference series began in 2008, with the aim of strengthening the research careers...”

9 “...When we began to consider the scope of this book, we envisaged a catalogue supplying at least one...”

10 “...When we began to consider the scope of this book, we envisaged a catalogue supplying at least one...”

11 “... are worthwhile. I began by rewriting almost all the text, trying to make proofs clearer, and often giving more...”

12 “... and the differentiable variety structure. Studies of such groups began around 1870 as groups of symmetries...”

13 “.... This book is an attempt to fill this gap. My interest in the theory of semirings began in the early sixties...”

14 “... with this interaction began in 1961. I had done Ph. D. work on sequence convergence in totally ordered groups under...”

15 “... is contained in a finite subgroup. The study of locally finite groups began with Schur's result that a periodic...”

16 “...When we began to consider the scope of this book, we envisaged a catalogue supplying at least one...”

17 “... of unbounded operator algebras began only at the beginning of the seventies. It was initiated by (in alphabetic...”

18 “...This volume began as the last part of a one-term graduate course given at the Fields Institute...”

19 “..., Lie algebras) began more than thirty years ago; there are results on this subject also for lattices...”

20 “...This book, in some sense, began to be written by the first author in 1983, when optional lectures...”