
Infinite length modules. Some Examples as Introduction.- Modules with strange decomposition properties.- Failure of the Krull-Schmidt theorem for artinian modules and serial modules.- Artinian modules over a matrix ring.- Some combinatorial principles for solving algebraic problems.-...

This volume presents the invited lectures of a conference devoted to Infinite Length Modules, held at Bielefeld, September 7-11, 1998. Some additional surveys have been included in order to establish a unified picture. The scientific organization of the conference was in the...