A history of Galois fields
This paper stresses a specific line of development of the notion of finite field, from Évariste Galois’s 1830 “Note sur la théorie des nombres,” and Camille Jordan’s 1870 Traité des substitutions et des équations algébriques, to Leonard Dickson’s 1901 Linear groups with an exposition of the Galois t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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CHC - Centro Interunidades de História da Ciência da Universidade de São Paulo
2016-07-01
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| Series: | Khronos |
| Online Access: | https://www.revistas.usp.br/khronos/article/view/134556 |