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Chapter ¢ñ THE CALCUIUS OF PERMUTATIONS
1 Permutations
2 The Symmetric Group fn
3 Cycles and Transpositions
4 Odd and Even Permutations
5 Classes of Permutations
7 The Positive and Negative Symmetric Groups on r Letters

Chapter ¢ò THE CALCULUS OF TABIEAUX
1 Shapes and Tableaux
2 The Substitutional Expressions P and N
3 The Product PrNs
4 The Expressions E
5 von Neumann's Theorem
6 Young's Formula
7 Tableaux of Different Shapes

Chapter ¢ó THE SEMI-NORMAL REPRESENTATION
1 Standard Tableaux
2 The Evaluation of fa
3 The Semi-normal Units e
4 Certain Fundamental Formulae
5 The Irreducible Semi-normal Representations of fn
6 Expressions which do not Involve the Last Letter
7 The Semi-normal Matrix for E
8 The Matrices U
9 The Matrices U

Chapter ¢ô THE ORTHOGONAL AND NATURAL REPRESENTATIONS
1 Equivalent Representations
2 The Invariant Quadratic
3 The Tableau Function
4 The Orthogonal Representation
5 The Matrix
6 The Natural Representation
7 Expressions for the Units g
8 Equivalence of the Natural and Semi-normal Representations

Chapter ¢õ GROUP CHARACTERS
1 The Expressions C¦Á
2 The Expressions T¦Á
3 The Relations between the Expressions T¦Ê and C¦Ê
4 The Group Characters of fn
5 The Evaluation of the Group Characters
6 Reduction Formulae
7 Littlewood's Theorem

Chapter ¢ö SUBSTITUTIONAL EQUATIONS
1 Minimum Functions
2 The Master Idempotent
3 The Substitutional Properties of Functions
4 The Number of Independent Solutions of LX = 0
5 The Solution of the Equation LX = 0
6 Functions which are Invariant under a Group of Substitutional Expressions
7 Some Special Cases
8 The Equation LX = R
Appendix TABLES FOR THE CASE n = 3
Bibliography
Index