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319 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. First Edition. Ownership Signature And Critical Marginalia Of Caltech Mathematician Dewey C Duncan Dated November 1938. With The Errata Slip At Front, Further Annotated By Duncan With Additional Errata On Verso.According To The Text On Front Flap, The First Exposition Of The Theory Of Matrices Over A General Field. Book Uses Method Of Automorphism Groups Rather Than The Earlier Substitution Group. The Book Contains The First Description In English Of The Theory Of Fields With A Valuation, And Consequently Of P-Adic Numbers. Gilt Bright, Cloth Clean And Evenly Colored, Hinges Tight. Dj Worn, Large Chip Around Head Of Spine Removing Title And Part Of Descriptions Of 3 Books On Rear Panel, Otherwise Small Chips Not Affecting Other Lettering. Maceration In A Small Thin Area Right Along Center Of Fore Eedge Of Front Cover With A Few Nicks To Cloth Of Book Beneath. Per Wikipedia, Abraham Adrian Albert (1905 ?1972) Was An American Mathematician. A First Generation American, He Was Born In Chicago And Most Associated With That City. He Received His Bachelor Of Science In 1926, Masters In 1927, And Phd In 1928, At The Age Of 22. All Degrees Were Obtained From The University Of Chicago. He Married Around The Same Time As His Graduation. He Spent His Postdoctoral Year At Princeton University And Then From 1929 To 1931 He Was An Instructor At Columbia University. During This Period He Worked On Abelian Varieties And Their Endomorphism Algebras. He Returned To Princeton For The Opening Year Of The Institute For Advanced Study In 1933-34 And Spent Another Year In Princeton In 1961-62 As The First Director Of The Communications Research Division Of Ida (The Institute For Defense Analyses). From 1931 To 1972, He Served On The Mathematics Faculty At The University Of Chicago, Where He Became Chair Of The Mathematics Department In 1958 And Dean Of The Physical Sciences Division In 1961. In 1939, He Received The American Mathematical Society's Cole Prize In Algebra For His Work On Riemann Matrices. As A Research Mathematician, He Was One Of The Principal Developers Of The Theory Of Linear Associative Algebras And As A Pioneer In The Development Of Linear Non-Associative Algebras, Although All Of This Grew Out Of His Work On Endomorphism Algebras Of Abelian Varieties. He Is Best Known For His Work On The Albert?Brauer?Hasse?Noether Theorem On Finite-Dimensional Division Algebras Over Number Fields And As The Developer Of Albert Algebras, Which Are Also Known As Exceptional Jordan Algebras. As An Applied Mathematician, He Also Did Work For The Military During World War Ii And Thereafter. One Of His Most Notable Achievements Was His Groundbreaking Work On Cryptography. He Prepared A Manuscript, "Some Mathematical Aspects Of Cryptography," For His Invited Address At A Meeting Of The American Mathematical Society In November 1941. The Theory That Developed From This Work Can Be Seen In Digital Communications Technologies. After Wwii, He Became A Forceful Advocate Favoring Government Support For Research In Mathematics On A Par With Physical Sciences. He Served On Policy-Making Bodies At The Office Of Naval Research, The United States National Research Council, And The National Science Foundation That Funneled Research Grants Into Mathematics, Giving Many Young Mathematicians Career Opportunities Previously Unavailable. Due To His Success In Helping To Give Mathematical Research A Sound Financial Footing, He Earned A Reputation As A "Statesman For Mathematics." Albert Was Elected A Fellow Of The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences In 1968.
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