The Correspondence of William Burnside

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-46615-6_8zbMath1404.01013OpenAlexW2563063663MaRDI QIDQ4562874

Howard Emmens

Publication date: 18 December 2018

Published in: Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46615-6_8

zbMATH Keywords

finite groupsLondon Mathematical Societymathematical correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of group theory (20-03)

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• New light on Frobenius' creation of the theory of group characters
• Letters from William Burnside to Robert Fricke: automorphic functions, and the emergence of the Burnside problem
• Burnside's engagement with the ``modern theory of statistics
• Obituary: Philip Hall
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