Mathematician:Leonard Eugene Dickson

Mathematician
One of the first American mathematicians to work in abstract algebra.

Also remembered for his history of number theory.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 22 Jan 1874, Independence, Iowa, USA
 * Died: 17 Jan 1954, Harlingen, Texas, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Cayley-Dickson Algebra (with )
 * Cayley-Dickson Construction (with )
 * Dickson's Lemma
 * Dickson Invariant
 * Dickson Polynomial
 * Catalan-Dickson Conjecture (with )

Publications

 * 1897: The Analytic Representation of Substitutions on a Power of a Prime Number of Letters with a Discussion of the Linear Group


 * 1901: Linear Groups With an Exposition of the Galois Field Theory


 * 1913: Finiteness of the Odd Perfect and Primitive Abundant Numbers with n Distinct Prime Factors






 * 1914: Linear Algebras


 * 1914: Algebraic Invariants


 * 1914: Elementary Theory of Equations


 * 1919: On Quaternions and Their Generalization and the History of the Eight Square Theorem


 * 1919:
 * 1920:
 * 1923:


 * 1922: First Course in the Theory of Equations


 * 1923: Algebras and their Arithmetics


 * 1926: Modern algebraic theories


 * 1927: Algebren und ihre Zahlentheorie


 * 1929: Introduction to the Theory of Numbers


 * 1930: Studies in the Theory of Numbers




 * 1935: Biographical Memoir of 1862–1932 (with )


 * 1935: Researches on Waring's problem


 * 1938: Theory and Applications of Finite Groups (with and )


 * 1938: Algebras And Their Arithmetics


 * 1939: Modern Elementary Theory of Numbers


 * 1939: New First Course in the Theory of Equations