Semimodular Lattices: Theory and Applications

by Manfred Stern

Book Overview

Lattice theory evolved as part of algebra in the nineteenth century through the work of Boole, Peirce and Schr?der, and in the first half of the twentieth century through the work of Dedekind, Birkhoff, Ore, von Neumann, Mac Lane, Wilcox, Dilworth, and others. In Semimodular Lattices, Manfred Stern uses successive generalizations of distributive and modular lattices to outline the development of semimodular lattices from Boolean algebras. He focuses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521118840
• ISBN13: 9780521118842
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"