Fundamentals of Semigroup Theory

Zusatztext With this well-written and well-organised book I think the author has ensured that "Howie" will continue to be a byword for semigroup books Klappentext The emphasis throughout is unashamedly on what might be called 'pure' semigroup theory; the inclusion of significant amount of application, for example, to automata, languages and machines, would have involved a huge, and probably unacceptable, increase in the length (and the price) of the book. The only mild genuflection in the direction of applied semigroup theory occurs in Chapter 7, where the brief section on variable length codes gives some hint a fascinating and continually developing field. Zusammenfassung This concise introduction to the subject emphasizes the various classes of regular semigroups. More than 150 exercises, accompanied by references to the relevant research literature, direct readers to areas not explicitly covered in the text. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introductory ideas 2: Green's equivalences; regular semigroups 3: 0-simple semigroups 4: Completely regular semigroups 5: Inverse semigroups 6: Other classes of regular semigroups 7: Free semigroups 8: Semigroup amalgams References List of symbols

Product details

• Authors: John M Howie, John M. Howie, John M. (Regius Professor of Mathematics Howie, Howie John M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.1995
• EAN: 9780198511946
• ISBN: 978-0-19-851194-6
• No. of pages: 362
• Series: London Mathematical Society Mo; London Mathematical Society Monographs; London Mathematical Society Monographs; London Mathematical Society Mo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Arithmetic, algebra; Algebra, MATHEMATICS / Group Theory, MATHEMATICS / Algebra / General, COMPUTERS / Machine Theory, MATHEMATICS / Combinatorics, Combinatorics & graph theory, Groups & group theory, Mathematical theory of computation, Groups and group theory, Combinatorics and graph theory