A Young tableau, plural tableaux, is a combinatorial object useful in representation theory and Schubert calculus, providing a convenient way to describe the group representations of the symmetric and general linear groups and to study their properties. Young tableaux were introduced by Alfred Young, a mathematician at Cambridge University, in 1900, and were then applied to the study of the symmetric group by Georg Frobenius in 1903. Their theory was developed further by many later mathematicians, including Percy MacMahon, W. V. D. Hodge, G. de B. Robinson, Gian-Carlo Rota, Alain Lascoux, Marcel-Paul Schutzenberger and Richard P. Stanley.
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Young tableaux were introduced by Alfred Young, a mathematician at Cambridge University, in 1900.
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