Table of Contents

Part I. Calculus Of Tableux: 1. Bumping and sliding; 2. Words: the plactic monoid; 3. Increasing sequences: proofs of the claims; 4. The Robinson-Schensted-Knuth Correspondence; 5. The Littlewood-Richardson rule; 6. Symmetric polynomials; Part II. Representation Theory: 7. Representations of the symmetric group; 8. Representations of the general linear group; Part III. Geometry: 9. Flag varieties; 10. Schubert varieties and polynomials; Appendix A; Appendix B.

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Describes combinatorics involving Young tableaux and their uses in representation theory and algebraic geometry.