Leonard Eugene Dickson | |
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| Born | January 22, 1874 |
| Died | January 17, 1954 (aged 79) Harlingen, Texas, US |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1896) |
| Known for | Cayley–Dickson construction Dickson's conjecture Dickson's lemma Dickson invariant Dickson polynomial Modular invariant theory |
| Awards | Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1923) Cole Prize in Algebra (1928) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University 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 advisor | E. H. Moore |
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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.