Alfred Young (mathematician)
Alfred Young, FRS[1] (16 April 1873 – 15 December 1940) was a British mathematician.[2]
He was born in
Young diagrams and Young tableaux
(which he introduced in 1900) are named after him.
Young was appointed to the position of lecturer at
Clare College in 1905. In 1902 he collaborated with John Hilton Grace
on the book The Algebra of Invariants.
In 1907 he married Edith Clara née Wilson. In 1908 he became an ordained
clergyman, and in 1910 became parish priest at Birdbrook in Essex, a village 25 miles east of Cambridge
. He lived there for the rest of his life, but in 1926 began lecturing once again at Cambridge.
Most of his long series of papers on
clergyman
.
Young's ideas have had a significant impact on: (1) group representation theory, (2) combinatorics and statistics, (3) invariant theory, (4) physics and (5) chemistry. These topics intertwine sufficiently that a single result may have implications in more than one area.[4]
See also
- Hyperoctahedral group
- Young's lattice
- Young–Fibonacci lattice
- Young symmetrizer
- Representation theory of the symmetric group
References
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- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alfred Young (mathematician)", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ "Young, Alfred (YN892A)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ISSN 0273-0979. (quote from p. 990)
Bibliography
- Grace, J. H.; Young, Alfred (1903), The algebra of invariants, Cambridge University Press
- Young, Alfred (1977). Robinson, G. de B. (ed.). The collected papers of Alfred Young (1873–1940). Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press. p. 684. MR 0439548.
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