Generalizations of Schur functions

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Schur functions were first studied by Cauchy in 1815, although they were named after Schur, who in 1901 showed that they were isomorphic to an irreducible character of a symmetric group under the Frobenius character map. Since then they have arisen in a variety of areas including algebraic geometry where Schur functions agree with Schubert classes in the cohomology ring of the complex Grassmannian, and quantum mechanics where they are related to quantum states.