The Mathematics of Frobenius in Context

Download or read book The Mathematics of Frobenius in Context written by Thomas Hawkins and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frobenius made many important contributions to mathematics in the latter part of the 19th century. Hawkins here focuses on his work in linear algebra and its relationship with the work of Burnside, Cartan, and Molien, and its extension by Schur and Brauer. He also discusses the Berlin school of mathematics and the guiding force of Weierstrass in that school, as well as the fundamental work of d'Alembert, Lagrange, and Laplace, and of Gauss, Eisenstein and Cayley that laid the groundwork for Frobenius's work in linear algebra. The book concludes with a discussion of Frobenius's contribution to the theory of stochastic matrices.