Book review of: C. Hollings, Mathematics across the Iron Curtain. A history of the algebraic theory of semigroups

DOI10.1007/s00283-015-9566-5zbMath1346.00038OpenAlexW2273751584MaRDI QIDQ316847

David E. Zitarelli

Publication date: 30 September 2016

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-015-9566-5

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General structure theory for semigroups (20M10) Semigroups of transformations, relations, partitions, etc. (20M20) Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Schools of mathematics (01A72) External book reviews (00A17) History of group theory (20-03) Semigroups (20Mxx)

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