Walter Talbot's thesis
History and Overview
2018-05-21 v1
Abstract
Walter Richard Talbot was the fourth African American to earn a PhD in Mathematics. His doctoral degree is from the University of Pittsburgh in 1934 in geometric group theory. A contemporary research program was the determination of fundamental domains of finite group actions on complex vector spaces. His thesis is not widely available, and this note gives a brief synopsis of the main results of his thesis, expressed using modern mathematical methods and language, and placed in general context.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1805.06890,
title = {Walter Talbot's thesis},
author = {Thomas Hales},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.06890},
year = {2018}
}