Emergence of the theory of lie groups: an essay in the history of mathematics, 1869-1926/
Thomas Hawkins
- New York: Springer, c2000.
- xiii, 564 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- (Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences) .
pt. I. Sophus Lie Ch. 1. The Geometrical Origins of Lie's Theory Ch. 2. Jacobi and the Analytical Origins of Lie's Theory Ch. 3. Lie's Theory of Transformation Groups 1874-1893
pt. II. Wilhelm Killing Ch. 4. The Background to Killing's Work on Lie Algebras Ch. 5. Killing and the Structure of Lie Algebrass
pt. III. Elie Cartan Ch. 6. The Doctoral Thesis of Elie Cartan Ch. 7. Lie's School & Linear Representations. Ch. 8. Cartan's Trilogy: 1913-14
pt. IV. Hermann Weyl Ch. 9. The Gottingen School of Hilbert Ch. 10. The Berlin Algebraists: Frobenius & Schur Ch. 11. From Relativity to Representations Ch. 12. Weyl's Great Papers of 1925 and 1926.