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Mathematics across the Iron Curtain: A History of the Algebraic Theory of Semigroups
About this Title
Christopher Hollings
Publication: History of Mathematics
Publication Year:
2014; Volume 41
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-1493-1 (print); 978-1-4704-1717-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/hmath/041
MathSciNet review: MR3222721
MSC: Primary 20-03; Secondary 01A60, 20Mxx
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Algebra at the beginning of the twentieth century
- Communication between East and West
- Anton Kazimirovich Sushkevich
- Unique factorisation in semigroups
- Embedding semigroups in groups
- The Rees Theorem
- The French school of ’demi-groupes’
- The expansion of the theory in the 1940s and 1950s
- The post-Sushkevich Soviet school
- The development of inverse semigroups
- Matrix representations of semigroups
- Books, seminars, conferences, and journals
- Basic theory