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Title:
Pioneers of representation theory : frobenius, burnside, schur, and braue
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History of mathematics, 15
Publication Information:
Providence, R. I. : Amer Mathematical Society, 1999
Physical Description:
xvi, 287 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
ISBN:
9780821826775

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Table of Contents

Some 19th-century algebra and number theory
Frobenius and the invention of character theory
Burnside: Representations and structure of finite groups
Schur: A new beginning Polynomial representations of $GL_n(\mathbb{{C}})$
Richard Brauer and Emmy Noether: 1926-1933
Modular representation theory
Bibliography
Index