Frobenius was one of his teachers and he was to greatly influence Schur and later to direct his doctoral studies. Frobenius and Burnside had been the two main founders of the theory of representations of groups as groups of matrices .
Frobenius ay isa sa kanyang mga guro at siya ay malaki impluwensiya sa Schur at mamaya sa direktang kanyang pag-aaral ng doktor. Frobenius at Burnside had been ang dalawang pangunahing mga founder ng teorya ng representasyon ng mga grupo bilang grupo ng mga matrices.