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Book Information:
Author:
M. Petrich
Title:
Lectures in semigroups
Additional book information:
Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1977, viii + 168 pp.
Michael A. Arbib (ed.), Algebraic theory of machines, languages, and semigroups, Academic Press, New York-London, 1968. With a major contribution by Kenneth Krohn and John L. Rhodes. MR 0232875
A. P. Birjukov, Varieties of idempotent semigroups, Algebra i Logika 9 (1970), 255–273 (Russian). MR 0297897
3. A. H. Clifford and G. B. Preston, The algebraic theory of semigroups, Math. Surveys, no. 7, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I., Part 1, 1961; Part 2, 1967.
4. S. Eilenberg, Automata, languages and machines, Academic Press, New York, 1974 (volume A), 1976 (volume B).
Charles F. Fennemore, All varieties of bands. I, II, Math. Nachr. 48 (1971), 237–252; ibid. 48 (1971), 253-262. MR 294535, DOI 10.1002/mana.19710480118
J. A. Gerhard, The lattice of equational classes of idempotent semigroups, J. Algebra 15 (1970), 195–224. MR 263953, DOI 10.1016/0021-8693(70)90073-6
J. M. Howie, An introduction to semigroup theory, L. M. S. Monographs, No. 7, Academic Press [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers], London-New York, 1976. MR 0466355
Mario Petrich, Introduction to semigroups, Merrill Research and Lecture Series, Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., Columbus, Ohio, 1973. MR 0393206
- 1.
- Michael A. Arbib (editor), Algebraic theory of machines, languages and semigroups, Academic Press, New York, 1968. MR 0232875
- 2.
- A. P. Birjukov, Varieties of idempotent semigroups, Algebra i Logika 9 (1970), 255-273 (Russian). MR 297897
- 3.
- A. H. Clifford and G. B. Preston, The algebraic theory of semigroups, Math. Surveys, no. 7, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I., Part 1, 1961; Part 2, 1967.
- 4.
- S. Eilenberg, Automata, languages and machines, Academic Press, New York, 1974 (volume A), 1976 (volume B).
- 5.
- C. F. Fennemore, All varieties of bands. I, II, Math. Nachr. 48 (1971), 237-252; ibid 48 (1971), 253-262. MR 294535
- 6.
- J. A. Gerhard, The lattice of equational classes of idempotent semigroups, J. Algebra 15 (1970), 195-224. MR 263953
- 7.
- J. M. Howie, An introduction to semigroup theory, Academic Press, New York, 1976. MR 466355
- 8.
- Mario Petrich, Introduction to semigroups, Merrill, Columbus, Ohio, 1973. MR 393206
Review Information:
Reviewer:
John M. Howie
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
84 (1978), 453-456
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14490-5
