"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Representation theory transforms abstract algebra groups into things like simpler matrices. The field’s ...

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Diophantus of Alexandria revolutionized algebra with Arithmetica, pioneering symbolic notation and abstract number theory.