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The year 1907 marks a turning point in the history of algebra, for it was in this year that J.M.H. Wedderburn published his acclaimed structure and isomorphism theorems for semisimple algebras. These important results form one foundation of the modern theory of algebras.
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Farenick, D.R. (2001). Semisimple Algebras. In: Algebras of Linear Transformations. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0097-7_4
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