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Frobenius's last proof

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Around about 1917, Issai Schur rediscovered the Rogers-Ramanujan identities, and proved a system of polynomial identities that imply them. Schur wrote that Georg Frobenius (his former advisor) had shown him a simple, direct proof of these polynomial identities. Schur did not see fit to reveal Frobenius's proof, preferring his own rather complicated proof. But it is easy enough to guess what this `simple, direct' proof must have been. As Frobenius died in 1917, we may call this `Frobenius's last proof'.

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An Introduction to Algebraic Combinatorics

math.CO · 2025-05-31 · conditional · novelty 2.0

A proof-heavy, open-access graduate textbook on algebraic combinatorics, including a full proof of the Littlewood-Richardson rule.

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  • An Introduction to Algebraic Combinatorics math.CO · 2025-05-31 · conditional · none · ref 1867 · internal anchor

    A proof-heavy, open-access graduate textbook on algebraic combinatorics, including a full proof of the Littlewood-Richardson rule.