Wilhelm Specht was a German mathematician who worked in group theory and representation theory. He was born in Rastatt, Baden on 22 September 1907 and died in Herrsching, Bavaria on 19 February 1985. His construction of the irreducible representations of the symmetric group, now called Specht modules, and his work on identities of algebras are the results that carry his name. He belongs to the German school of algebra that grew up in Berlin before the Second World War.
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Wilhelm Specht was a German mathematician who in worked group theory and representation theory.
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Wilhelm Specht was a German mathematician who in worked group theory and representation theory.
Specht's theorem (Wikipedia)
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It is named after Wilhelm Specht, who proved the theorem in 1940.
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