Monoids and Semigroups With Applications: Proceedings of the Berkeley Workshop in Monoids, Berkeley, 31 July - 5 August 1989

by John Rhodes (editor)

Proceedings of a workshop held in Berkeley, Calif., July-Aug. 1989. The sections cover kernels and expansion in semigroup theory using category theory; implicit operations a use of universal algebra; inverse monoids via combinatoric and geometric methods; varieties of semigroups and universal algebra; linear semigroup and monoids of Lie type; monoids acting on trees; the synthesis theorem and regular semigroups; Type-II conjecture; and applications. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

548 pages, Hardcover

Published March 1, 1991

About the author

John Rhodes is the award winning author of the Breaking Point series set in the Battle of Britain, and of the Thomas Ford ‘cozy’ detective series. Rhodes graduated from Cambridge University where he studied history. His focus on World War II stems from his earliest memories—he was born while his father was serving at an RAF Fighter Command airfield, and he grew up in London, where, he says, the shells of bombed-out buildings ‘served as our adventure playgrounds.’

He is currently working on a third book in the Breaking Point series, set in Malta in 1942, and another ‘whodunit’ murder case for Thomas Ford to solve.