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

DOI10.1007/S00283-015-9566-5MaRDI QIDQ316847zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

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

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• Gordon Bamford Preston
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• Obituary. V. V. Vagner (1908-1981)

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• Meeting under the Integral Sign? The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the Eve of the Second World War

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