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Algebra, $K$-Theory, Groups, and Education: On the Occasion of Hyman Bass’s 65th Birthday
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T. Y. Lam and A. R. Magid, Editors
Publication: Contemporary Mathematics
Publication Year:
1999; Volume 243
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1087-3 (print); 978-0-8218-7833-0 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/243
MathSciNet review: 1733562
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Front/Back Matter
Articles
- John Ewing – On the occasion of the 65th birthday of Hyman Bass
- Hyman Bass – A professional autobiography [MR 1732037]
- Deborah Loewenberg Ball – Crossing boundaries to examine the mathematics entailed in elementary teaching
- Edward Formanek – Bass’s work on the Jacobian conjecture [MR 1732038]
- Robert M. Guralnick and Christopher J. Pappacena – Torsion in genus class groups [MR 1732039]
- Craig Huneke – Hyman Bass and ubiquity: Gorenstein rings [MR 1732040]
- Irving Kaplansky – A salute to Euler and Dickson on the occasion of Hy’s 65th birthday [MR 1732041]
- T. Y. Lam – Bass’s work in ring theory and projective modules [MR 1732042]
- Alexander Lubotzky – One for almost all: generation of $\textrm {SL}(n,p)$ by subsets of $\textrm {SL}(n,\textbf {Z})$ [MR 1732043]
- Andy R. Magid – Deformations of representations [MR 1732044]
- Shahar Mozes – Trees, lattices and commensurators [MR 1732045]
- M. Pavaman Murthy – A survey of obstruction theory for projective modules of top rank [MR 1732046]
- A. S. Rapinchuk – The congruence subgroup problem [MR 1732047]
- Peter B. Shalen – Three-manifold topology and the tree for $\rm PSL_2$: the Smith conjecture and beyond [MR 1732048]
- Charles A. Weibel – The development of algebraic $K$-theory before 1980 [MR 1732049]