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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566553
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Authors: A. H. Clifford and G. B. Preston
Title: The algebraic theory of semigroups
Additional book information: Vol. I and II. Mathematical Surveys, number 7, American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 1961 and 1967. xvi+244 pp. and xv+350 pp. $11.10 and $14.20.

Author: E. S. Ljapin
Title: Semigroups
Additional book information: Fizmatigiz, Moscow, 1960. vii+447 pp; English translation, Translations of Mathematical Monographs, volume 3, American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 1963. x+487 pp. $22.20.

Author: László Rédei
Title: The theory of finitely generated commutative semigroups
Additional book information: Translated, edited by N. Reilly, Pergamon Press, New York, 1965, xiii+353 pp. $13.50.

Authors: Karl Heinrich Hofmann and Paul S. Mostert
Title: Elements of compact semigroups
Additional book information: Charles E. Merrill Books, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, 1966, xiii+384 pp. $15.00.

Review Information:

Reviewer: John Rhodes
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 675-683
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1970-12504-6