A book on Lie Algebras with proofs but written for physicists

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I am looking for a book talking about Lie groups and Lie algebras but not in a too abstract way.

In fact I am doing physics and I need to understand the structure of Lie algebras : why are elements of a group exponential of the algebra, why is the Lie group the tangent space etc.

I studied groups representation with the book "HF Jones Group representation and physics" and I am looking for a book like this one but talking about Lie groups & Lie algebra.

To give you an idea, I liked this book because it gave physical motivations before introducing the representations of groups, because it has proof and it is not written in a too abstract way, it has corrected exercices. Also it did some reminder on Algebra, Group theory before starting : it doesn't assume a perfect background before starting. And it goes in a straight way, it doesn't say thousands of theorem but it just expose what is necessary to get the main point.

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You might want to check out the textbook Quantum Theory, Groups, and Representations: An Introduction by Peter Woit. The PDF is available on his website:

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/

Maybe also Naive Lie Theory by Stillwell is worth a look:

https://www.amazon.com/Naive-Theory-Undergraduate-Texts-Mathematics/dp/144192681X