Leonard Eugene Dickson

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
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gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Chicago
gptkb:University_of_Texas_at_Austin
gptkbp:award gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences_Fellow
gptkb:American_Mathematical_Society_Colloquium_Lecturer
National Academy of Sciences membership
gptkbp:birthDate 1874-01-22
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Independence,_Iowa,_United_States
gptkbp:children one son
gptkbp:deathDate 1954-01-17
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:San_Antonio,_Texas,_United_States
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Eliakim_Hastings_Moore
gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:E._T._Bell
gptkb:Oswald_Veblen
gptkb:George_Birkhoff
gptkb:Joseph_Wedderburn
gptkb:R._L._Moore
gptkb:A._Adrian_Albert
gptkb:Arnold_Dresden
gptkb:H._S._Vandiver
gptkb:Leonard_Carlitz
gptkbp:field gptkb:algebra
gptkb:mathematics
group theory
history of mathematics
number theory
linear algebra
finite fields
gptkbp:honor Dickson Prize in Science (named in his honor)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Leonard Eugene Dickson
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Dickson's_lemma
gptkb:Dickson's_theorem
gptkb:Dickson_invariant
gptkb:Dickson_polynomial
history of number theory
work on finite fields
work on linear groups
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gptkb:American_Mathematical_Society
gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Algebras_and_Their_Arithmetics
gptkb:History_of_the_Theory_of_Numbers
gptkb:Linear_Groups_with_an_Exposition_of_the_Galois_Field_Theory
gptkb:Modern_Elementary_Theory_of_Numbers
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Susan_Davis
gptkbp:workInstitution gptkb:University_of_Chicago
gptkb:University_of_Texas_at_Austin
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Abraham_Adrian_Albert
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