Walter Talbot's thesis
Abstract
Walter Richard Talbot was the fourth African American to earn a PhD in Mathematics. His doctoral degree is from the University of Pittsburgh in 1934 in geometric group theory. A contemporary research program was the determination of fundamental domains of finite group actions on complex vector spaces. His thesis is not widely available, and this note gives a brief synopsis of the main results of his thesis, expressed using modern mathematical methods and language, and placed in general context.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- May 2018
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1805.06890
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1805.06890
- Bibcode:
- 2018arXiv180506890H
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - History and Overview