On symmetric functions.

The faint beginnings of the theory of symmetric functions can be traced as far back as the sixteenth century. The starting point seems to be with the eccentric Italian mathematician of the middle sixteenth century, Girolamo Cardano (1501--1576) whose name has been associated with the first solution...

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Main Author: Hines, Isaac Leroy
Format: Others
Published: DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center 1940
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Online Access:http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/EP17401
http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1128&context=dissertations