nLab Leonard Dickson

Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874-1954) was an American mathematician best known for his work in algebra and number theory.

• Wikipedia entry

Selected writings

On finite group theory:

• G. A. Miller, H. F. Blichfeldt, Leonard E. Dickson, Theory and applications of finite groups, Dover, New York, 1916 (ark:/13960/t0ht2kb4x)

On octonions and introducing the Cayley-Dickson construction:

• Leonard Dickson, On Quaternions and Their Generalization and the History of the Eight Square Theorem,

  Annals of Mathematics Second Series, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Mar., 1919), pp. 155-171 (jstor:1967865)

Related $n$Lab entries

• Cayley-Dickson construction

• Dickson invariant

• finite rotation group

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