Leonard Eugene Dickson (Independence, Iowa, 22 de janeiro de 1874 — Harlingen, Texas, 17 de janeiro de 1954) foi um matemático estadunidense.
Factos rápidos
Leonard Eugene Dickson |
Nascimento |
22 de janeiro de 1874 Independence (Iowa) |
Morte |
17 de janeiro de 1954 (79 anos) Harlingen (Texas) |
Sepultamento |
Cleburne Memorial Park Cemetery |
Nacionalidade |
estadunidense |
Cidadania |
Estados Unidos |
Alma mater |
Universidade de Chicago |
Ocupação |
matemático, historiador da matemática, professor universitário |
Prêmios |
Prêmio Newcomb Cleveland (1923), Prêmio Cole em Álgebra (1928) |
Empregador(a) |
Universidade do Texas em Austin, Universidade de Chicago, Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley |
Orientador(a)(es/s) |
Eliakim Hastings Moore |
Orientado(a)(s) |
Abraham Adrian Albert, F. Burton Jones, Cyrus Colton MacDuffee, Ivan Morton Niven, Arnold Ross |
Instituições |
Universidade de Chicago |
Campo(s) |
matemática |
Obras destacadas |
construção de Cayley-Dickson, Dickson's conjecture, Dickson's lemma, Dickson polynomials |
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Foi um dos primeiros pesquisadores dos Estados Unidos em álgebra abstrata, em particular a teoria de corpos finitos e grupos clássicos, sendo também lembrado por história da teoria dos números em três volumes.
- Dickson, Leonard Eugene (1958) [1901], Magnus, Wilhelm, ed., Linear groups: With an exposition of the Galois field theory, ISBN 978-0-486-49548-4, Dover Phoenix editions, New York: Dover Publications, MR 0104735
- Dickson, Leonard Eugene (2010) [1914], Linear algebras, ISBN 978-1-178-36805-5, Reprinting of Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, No. 16, Naub press, MR 0118745
- Dickson, Leonard Eugene (2010) [1914], Algebraic invariants, ISBN 978-1-4297-0042-9, Cornell University Library
- Dickson, Leonard Eugene (2004) [1914], On invariants and the theory of numbers, ISBN 978-0-486-43828-3, Dover Phoenix editions, New York: Dover Publications, MR 0201389
- Dickson, Leonard Eugene (2009) [1914], Elementary theory of equations, ISBN 978-1-112-27988-1, Cornell University Library
- Dickson, Leonard Eugene (2005) [1919], History of the theory of numbers. Vol. I: Divisibility and primality., ISBN 978-0-486-44232-7, New York: Dover Publications, MR 0245499
- Dickson, Leonard Eugene (2005) [1920], History of the theory of numbers. Vol. II: Diophantine analysis, ISBN 978-0-486-44233-4, New York: Dover Publications, MR 0245500
- Dickson, Leonard Eugene (2005) [1923], History of the theory of numbers. Vol. III: Quadratic and higher forms, ISBN 978-0-486-44234-1, New York: Dover Publications, MR 0245501
- Dickson, Leonard Eugene (2009) [1922], First course in the theory of equations, University of Michigan Library
- Dickson, Leonard Eugene (1960) [1923], Algebras and their arithmetics, ISBN 978-0-486-60616-3, New York: Dover Publications, MR 0111764
- 1926. Modern algebraic theories
- 1923, 1928. Algebraic Numbers. Report with others for U. S. National Research Council.
- 1929. Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
- 1930. Studies in the Theory of Numbers
- 1935. (with G. A. Bliss) "Biographical Memoir of Eliakim Hastings Moore 1862–1932."
- 1935. Researches on Waring's problem
- 1938. (with H. F. Blichfeldt and G. A. Miller) Theory and Applications of Finite Groups
- 1938. Algebras And Their Arithmetics
- 1939. Modern Elementary Theory of Numbers
- 1939. New First Course in the Theory of Equations
- Plane Trigonometry With Practical Applications
- Dickson, Leonard Eugene (1975), Albert, A. Adrian, ed., The collected mathematical papers of Leonard Eugene Dickson, ISBN 978-0-8284-0273-6, I, New York: AMS Chelsea Publishing, MR 0441665
- Dickson, Leonard Eugene (1983), Albert, A. Adrian, ed., The collected mathematical papers of Leonard Eugene Dickson, ISBN 0-8284-0305-6, VI, New York: AMS Chelsea Publishing, MR 0749229
- Fenster, D. D., 1997, "Role modeling in mathematics: the case of Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874–1954)," Historia Mathematica 24: 7–24.
- Parshall, K. H., 1983, "In pursuit of the finite division algebra theorem and beyond: Joseph H M Wedderburn, Leonard Dickson, and Oswald Veblen," Archives of International History of Science 33: 274–99.
- --------, 1991, "A study in group theory: Leonard Eugene Dickson's Linear groups," Mathematical Intelligencer 13: 7–11.
- --------, 1999, "Leonard Eugene Dickson" in American National Biography, vol. 6. Oxford Univ. Press: 578–79.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., «Leonard Eugene Dickson», MacTutor History of Mathematics archive (em inglês), Universidade de St. Andrews
- Leonard Eugene Dickson (em inglês) no Mathematics Genealogy Project