Leonard Eugene Dickson

Leonard Eugene Dickson (Independence, Iowa, 22 de janeiro de 1874 — Harlingen, Texas, 17 de janeiro de 1954) foi um matemático estadunidense.

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.

Obras

• 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 

Bibliografia

• 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.
• John J. O’Connor, Edmund F. Robertson: Leonard Eugene Dickson. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
• Leonard Eugene Dickson (em inglês) no Mathematics Genealogy Project