Mathematics across the iron curtain : a history of the algebraic theory of semigroups / Christopher Hollings.
Pubblicazione:
Providence : American mathematical society, 2014.
Descrizione fisica:
XI, 441 p. ; 27 cm
Serie:
History of mathematics ; 41
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. 1. Algebra at the beginning of the twentieth century 2. Communication between East and West 3. Anton Kazimirovich Sushkevich 4. Unique factorisation in semigroups 5. Embedding semigroups in groups 6. The Rees theorem 7. The French school of demi-groupes 8. The expansion of the theory in the 1940s and 1950s 9. The post-Sushkevich Soviet school 10. The development of inverse semigroups 11. Matrix representations of semigroups 12. Books, seminars, conferences and journals. Appendix: Basic theory. Notes. Bibliography. Name index. Subject index
