Leonard Eugene Dickson

Leonard Eugene Dickson
Born(1874-01-22)January 22, 1874
DiedJanuary 17, 1954(1954-01-17) (aged 79)
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (Ph.D., 1896)
Known forCayley–Dickson construction
Dickson's conjecture
Dickson's lemma
Dickson invariant
Dickson polynomial
Modular invariant theory
AwardsNewcomb Cleveland Prize (1923)
Cole Prize in Algebra (1928)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Thesis The Analytic Representation of Substitutions on a Power of a Prime Number of Letters with a Discussion of the Linear Group  (1896)
Doctoral advisorE. H. Moore
Doctoral students

Leonard Eugene Dickson (January 22, 1874 – January 17, 1954) was an American mathematician. He was one of the first American researchers in abstract algebra, in particular the theory of finite fields and classical groups, and is also remembered for a three-volume history of number theory, History of the Theory of Numbers. The L. E. Dickson instructorships at the University of Chicago Department of Mathematics are named after him.

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