Completing Segre's proof of Wedderburn's little theorem

John Bamberg, T. Penttila

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    © 2015 London Mathematical Society. We use the Dandelin-Gallucci theorem to give a proof of Wedderburn's little theorem that every finite division ring is commutative, and the proof is geometric in the sense that the non-geometric concepts employed are of an elementary nature. As a consequence, we obtain a geometric proof that a finite Desarguesian projective space is Pappian.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)483-492
    JournalBulletin of the London Mathematical Society
    Volume47
    Issue number3
    Early online date25 Mar 2015
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2015

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    Bamberg, John ; Penttila, T. / Completing Segre's proof of Wedderburn's little theorem. In: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 2015 ; Vol. 47, No. 3. pp. 483-492.
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    Bamberg, J & Penttila, T 2015, 'Completing Segre's proof of Wedderburn's little theorem' Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 483-492. https://doi.org/10.1112/blms/bdv021

    Completing Segre's proof of Wedderburn's little theorem. / Bamberg, John; Penttila, T.

    In: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, Vol. 47, No. 3, 06.2015, p. 483-492.

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    Bamberg J, Penttila T. Completing Segre's proof of Wedderburn's little theorem. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 2015 Jun;47(3):483-492. https://doi.org/10.1112/blms/bdv021

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