Goldschmidt D.M. Group Characters, Symmetric Functions and the Hecke Algebras. - American Mathematical Society - 1993. - 69 p.
Lectures given in Berkley in 1989.
University Lecture Series Vol. 4.
Part 1
Finite-Dimesion Algebras
Group Characters
Divisibility
Induced Characters
Part 2
Permutations and Patritions
The Irreducible Characters of S"
The Specht Modules
Symmetric Functions
The Schur Functions
The Littlewood-Richardson Rings
Two Useful Furmulas
Part 3
The Hecke Algebra
The Markov Trace