Literature

Course Notes
A preliminary version of the notes is available in pdf and ps format. Comments and errata are welcome! Write to Gabriele Dalla Torre (Universiteit Leiden) email: gdt at math dot leidenuniv dot nl.
Standard references
C.W. Curtis and I. Reiner,
Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Associative Algebras,
Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. XI,
Interscience Publishers, 1962.
J.-P. Serre, Linear Representations of Finite Groups,
(translated by L.L. Scott)
Graduate Texts in Mathematics 42,
Springer Verlag, 1977, (corrected printing, 1986)
W. Feit,
Characters of Finite Groups,
Benjamin, 1967.

Further reading
S.H. Weintraub,
Representation Theory of Finite Groups: Algebra and Arithmetic
Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Volume 59
American Mathematical Society, 2003

G. James and M. Liebeck
Representations and Characters of Groups
Cambridge University Press, second edition, 2001.