Article ID: CBB000774156

George Boole and the Origins of Invariant Theory (2008)

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Historians have repeatedly asserted that invariant theory was born in two papers of George Boole (1841 and 1842). Although several themes and techniques of 19th-century invariant theory are enunciated in this work, in reacting to it (and thereby founding the British school of invariant theory), Arthur Cayley shifted Boole's research program.

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Description Explores Boole's work and the reaction to it by Arthur Cayley.


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Authors & Contributors
Crilly, Tony
Steven H. Weintraub
Donal Murphy
Gerard Emile Grimberg
Leandro Silva Dias
Dunning, David E.
Journals
Historia Mathematica
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Mathematics Magazine
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Publishers
University of California, Los Angeles
MIT Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Cork University Press
Princeton University
Concepts
Mathematics
Algebra
Logic
Biographies
Determinants; matrices
Group theory
People
Boole, George
Cayley, Arthur
De Morgan, Augustus
Harley, Robert (1828-1910)
Walsh, John
Sylvester, James Joseph
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
England
North America
Germany
Europe
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