Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Author: Russell C. Walker
Title: The Stone-Čech compactification
Additional book information: Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, Band 83, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1974, x + 332 pp., $30.40.

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Edwin Hewitt, Rings of real-valued continuous functions. I, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 64 (1948), 45–99. MR 26239, DOI 10.1090/S0002-9947-1948-0026239-9

M. H. Stone, Applications of the theory of Boolean rings to general topology, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (1937), no. 3, 375–481. MR 1501905, DOI 10.1090/S0002-9947-1937-1501905-7

[C] E. Čech, On bicompact spaces, Ann. of Math. 38 (1937), 823-844. MR 1503374




[GJ] L. Gillman and M. Jerison, Rings of continuous functions, Univ. Ser. in Higher Math., Van Nostrand, Princeton, N.J., 1960. MR 22 #6994. MR 116199




[GK] I. Gelfand and A. Kolmogoroff, On rings of continuous functions on topological spaces, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 22 (1939), 11-15.




[H] E. Hewitt, Rings of real-valued continuous functions. I, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 64 (1948), 54-99. MR 10, 126. MR 26239




[S] M. H. Stone, Applications of the theory of Boolean rings to general topology, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (1937), 375-481. MR 1501905