A note on cellular algebras
The term "cellular algebra" was introduced by B. Yu. Weisfeiler
and A. A. Leman in the paper "Reduction of a graph to a canonical
form and an algebra which appears in this process", in
Scientific-Technical Investigations Ser. 2, 9 (1968),
12-16 (in Russian).
Recently, J. J. Graham and G. I. Lehrer have used
the same term in a different sense in their paper "Cellular algebras",
in Invent. Math. 123 (1996), 1-34.
Readers should be aware of the possibility of confusion.
Further historical notes can be found
here or in
R. A. Bailey's forthcoming
book on association
schemes.
Permutation groups page
Peter J. Cameron
3 October 2001.