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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Leonard Eugene Dickson, Oskar Becker, Otto E. Neugebauer, Morris Kline, Eric Temple Bell, Dirk Jan Struik, Eleanor Robson, Wilbur Knorr, Duncan Sommerville, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Heinrich Suter, Isaac Todhunter, Paul Tannery, Stephen Stigler, Thomas Little Heath, Oystein Ore, Georges Ifrah, Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich, Baldassarre Boncompagni, Anders Hald, Carl Benjamin Boyer, K. V. Sarma, Colin McLarty, Sofya Yanovskaya, Amir Aczel, James Franklin, W. W. Rouse Ball, Asger Aaboe, James R. Newman, William Dunham, David Fowler, Donald A. Gillies, Louis Charles Karpinski, Jack Copeland, Florian Cajori, Gerald J. Toomer, Tom Whiteside, Hermann Hankel, Howard Eves, George Johnston Allman, Joseph Dauben, Louis-Pierre-Eugene Sedillot, Eli Maor, Gustaf Enestrom, Detlef Laugwitz, Dietrich Mahnke, Gaston Milhaud, Judith Grabiner, Shuntar It, Johann Christoph Heilbronner, Karl Menninger, Kenneth O. May, R. Catesby Taliaferro, Michael Bernstein, Tsuruichi Hayashi, Solomon Gandz, Jose Augusto Sanchez Perez. Excerpt: Leonard Eugene Dickson (22 January 1874 - 17 January 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. Dickson considered himself a Texan by virtue of having grown up in Cleburne, where his father was a banker, merchant, and real estate investor. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, where George Bruce Halsted encouraged his study of mathematics. Dickson earned a B.S. in 1893 and an M.S. in 1894, under Halsted's supervision. Dickson first specialised in Halsted's own specialty, geometry. Both the University of Chicago and Harvard University welcomed Dickson as a Ph.D. student, and Dickson in...
