A study in group theory: Leonard Eugene Dickson's Linear Groups

DOI10.1007/BF03024065zbMath0714.20001OpenAlexW4232389900WikidataQ56228513 ScholiaQ56228513MaRDI QIDQ750600

Karen Hunger Parshall

Publication date: 1991

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024065

zbMATH Keywords

finite fieldslinear groupsL. E. Dickson

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of group theory (20-03)

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Cites Work

• The origin of the theory of group characters
• Eliakim Hastings Moore and the founding of a mathematical community in America, 1892–1902
• The orders of the linear groups
• Leonard Eugene Dickson 1874-1954
• The orders of the classical simple groups