This volume includes all the published papers of Alfred Young (1873-1940), who made outstanding contributions to the algebra of invariants and the theory of groups, together with a biographical sketch published after Young's death and a foreword by Professor G. de B. Robinson of the University of Toronto. It will be of interest to algebraists, combinatorialists, theoretical physicists, and students of the corresponding disciplines.

Alfred Young was a trained British mathematician who became a clergyman later in life. Most of his long series papers on invariant theory and the symmetric group were written while he was a clergyman.

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Gilbert de B. Robinson was born in Toronto, and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1927. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1931. He has been a member of the staff on the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto from 1931 to the present. He was Visiting Professor at Michigan State University in 1953-54. From 1940 to 1945 Professor Robinson served with the National Research Council in Ottawa; he was honoured with the M.B.E in 1946.

Professor Robinson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and was President of Section II in 1959-60, 1961-62. From 1933 to 1957, he was President of the Canadian Mathematical Congress. He has taken an active part in the founding and development of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics.

Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson's profile page