Description: A Course in Universal Algebra Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): S. Burris, H. P. Sankappanavar Format: Paperback Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., United States Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. ISBN-13: 9781461381327, 978-1461381327 Synopsis Universal algebra has enjoyed a particularly explosive growth in the last twenty years, and a student entering the subject now will find a bewildering amount of material to digest. This text is not intended to be encyclopedic; rather, a few themes central to universal algebra have been developed sufficiently to bring the reader to the brink of current research. The choice of topics most certainly reflects the authors' interests. Chapter I contains a brief but substantial introduction to lattices, and to the close connection between complete lattices and closure operators. In particular, everything necessary for the subsequent study of congruence lattices is included. Chapter II develops the most general and fundamental notions of uni versal algebra-these include the results that apply to all types of algebras, such as the homomorphism and isomorphism theorems. Free algebras are discussed in great detail-we use them to derive the existence of simple algebras, the rules of equational logic, and the important Mal'cev conditions. We introduce the notion of classifying a variety by properties of (the lattices of) congruences on members of the variety. Also, the center of an algebra is defined and used to characterize modules (up to polynomial equivalence). In Chapter III we show how neatly two famous results-the refutation of Euler's conjecture on orthogonal Latin squares and Kleene's character ization of languages accepted by finite automata-can be presented using universal algebra. We predict that such "applied universal algebra" will become much more prominent.
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Book Title: A Course in Universal Algebra
Number of Pages: 276 Pages
Publication Name: A Course in Universal Algebra
Language: English
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Mathematics
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 462 g
Author: S. Burris, H. P. Sankappanavar
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics
Format: Paperback
