An Introduction to C_-Algebras and the Classification Program; .

This book is directed towards graduate students that wish to start from the basic theory of C_-algebras and advance to an overview of some of the most spectacular results concerning the structure of nuclear C_-algebras.

The text is divided into three parts. First, elementary notions, classical theorems and constructions are developed. Then, essential examples in the theory, such as crossed products and the class of quasidiagonal C_-algebras, are examined, and finally, the Elliott inv ...