Joseph H. M. Wedderburn and the structure theory of algebras

DOI10.1007/BF00348450zbMath0561.01010OpenAlexW1982469370MaRDI QIDQ2266000

Karen Hunger Parshall

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00348450

zbMATH Keywords

matrix algebrasquaternionstransformation groupsFrobeniusCayleyC. S. PeirceSylvesterBenjamin PeirceElie Cartanlinear associative algebrasMolienScheffers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of associative rings and algebras (16-03)

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