Alfred Young
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Alfred Young (16 April 1873 – 15 December 1940) was a mathematician. He was born in Widnes, Lancashire, England. He is known for his work in the area of group theory. Both Young diagrams and Young tableaux are named after him.
He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. Most of his long series of papers on invariant theory and the symmetric group was carried out while he was a clergyman in a college.
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- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Alfred Young". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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