This book presents a complete account of the foundations of the theory of p-adic Lie groups. It moves on to some of the important more advanced aspects. Although most of the material is not new, it is only in recent years that p-adic Lie groups have found important applications in number theory and representation theory. These applications constitute, in fact, an increasingly active area of research. The book is designed to give to the advanced, but not necessarily graduate, student a streamlined access to the basics of the theory. It is almost self contained. Only a few technical computations which are well covered in the literature will not.
