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Book Information
Author(s):
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
References:
- [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
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Leonard
Gillman
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
82
(1976),
530-532.
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9904-1976-14084-0
PII:
S 0002-9904(1976)14084-0
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