%0 Journal Article %T Quantum Groups %A M. Ruiz--Altaba %J Physics %D 1993 %I arXiv %R 10.1063/1.46853 %X These notes correspond rather accurately to the translation of the lectures given at the Fifth Mexican School of Particles and Fields, held in Guanajuato, Gto., in December~1992. They constitute a brief and elementary introduction to quantum symmetries from a physical point of view, along the lines of the forthcoming book by C. G\'omez, G. Sierra and myself. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9311069v1