Oliver E Glenn

A Treatise on the Theory of Invariants Oliver E Glenn

The object of this book is, rst, to present in a volume of medium size thefundamental principles and processes and a few of the multitudinous applicationsof invariant theory, with emphasis upon both the nonsymbolical andthe symbolical method. Secondly, opportunity has been taken to emphasize alogical development of this theory as a whole, and to amalgamate methods ofEnglish mathematicians of the latter part of the nineteenth century{Boole, Cayley, Sylvester, and their contemporaries{and methods of the continental school, associated with the names of Aronhold, Clebsch, Gordan, and Hermit