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The Mathematics of Frobenius in Context A Journey Through 18th to 20th Century Mathematics /

Frobenius is best known as creator of the theory of group characters and representations, but his name is attached to a multitude of theorems and concepts from a broad spectrum of mathematical disciplines. In this book his mathematics is presented "in context" in two senses. The first prov...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hawkins, Thomas (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Colección:Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a 1. A Berlin Education -- 2. Professor at the Zurich Polytechnic -- 3. Berlin Professor -- 4. The Paradigm -- 5. Further Development of the Paradigm -- 6. The Problem of Pfaff -- 7. The Cayley-Hermite Problem and Matrix Algebra -- 8. Arithmetical Investigations: Linear Algebra -- 9. Arithmetical Investigations: Groups -- 10. Abelian Functions -- 11. Frobenius' Generalized Theory of Theta Functions -- 12. The Group Determinant Problem -- 13. Group Characters and Representations -- 14. Alternate Routes to Representation Theory -- 15. Characters and Representations after 1897 -- 16. Loose Ends -- 17. Nonnegative Matrices -- 18. The Mathematics of Frobenius in Retrospect -- References -- Index. 
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