References for Georg Frobenius
- H Wussing, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830901537.html
- Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9035472/Georg-Frobenius
Books:
- K-R Biermann, Die Mathematik und ihre Dozenten an der Berliner Universität 1810-1920 (Berlin, 1973).
- C W Curtis, Pioneers of representation theory : Frobenius, Burnside, Schur, and Brauer (Providence, Rhode Island, 1999).
Articles:
- R Haubrich, Frobenius, Schur, and the Berlin algebraic tradition, in Mathematics in Berlin (Berlin, 1998), 83-96.
- T Hawkins, New light on Frobenius' creation of the theory of group characters, Arch. History Exact Sci. 12 (1974), 217-243.
- K Miyake, A note on the arithmetic background to Frobenius' theory of group characters, Exposition. Math. 7 (4) (1989), 347-358.
- H Schneider, The concepts of irreducibility and full indecomposability of a matrix in the works of Frobenius, König and Markov, Linear Algebra and Appl. 18 (2) (1977), 139-162.
- C L Siegel, Erinnerungen an Frobenius, in F G Frobenius, Gesammelte Abhandlungen (Berlin, 1968), iv-vi.
- N Stuloff, G F Frobenius, Neue Deutsche Biographie V (1961), 641.
- F L Williams, History and variations on the theme of the Frobenius reciprocity theorem, The Mathematical Intelligencer 13 (3) (1991), 68-71.
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