Introduction to Boolean Algebras (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Springer-Verlag New York Inc., New York, NY, 2010
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Paperback. This book is an informal yet systematic presentation of lectures given by the author on Boolean algebras. The authors style is characteristically bold and fresh. He treats Boolean algebras, develops some intriguing ideas, and provides rare insights. Exercises are generously sprinkled through the text for course study. The second edition has been greatly expanded and rewritten, specific changes include:* More detail explanations of the material in every section, making the text more accessible to undergraduates* Three times as many exercises as well as a solutions manual* A more careful explanation of the relationship between Boolean rings and Boolean algebras has been added;* thirteen new chapters, including ones on topology and continuous functions and others on the extension theorem for homomorphisms, congruences and quotient algebras, lattice of ideals, and duality theory for products. This book is an informal though systematic series of lectures on Boolean algebras. It contains background chapters on topology and continuous functions and includes hundreds of exercises as well as a solutions manual. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Introduction to Boolean Algebras (Paperback)
- Author
- Paul Halmos
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc., New York, NY
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1441923241
- ISBN 13
- 9781441923240
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Series
- Book 31 of 170: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
This book is an informal yet systematic presentation of lectures given by the author on Boolean algebras. The author’s style is characteristically bold and fresh. He treats Boolean algebras, develops some intriguing ideas, and provides rare insights. Exercises are generously sprinkled through the text for course study. The second edition has been greatly expanded and rewritten, specific changes include:
* More detail explanations of the material in every section, making the text more accessible to undergraduates
* Three times as many exercises as well as a solutions manual
* A more careful explanation of the relationship between Boolean rings and Boolean algebras has been added;
* thirteen new chapters, including ones on topology and continuous functions and others on the extension theorem for homomorphisms, congruences and quotient algebras, lattice of ideals, and duality theory for products.
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In a bold and refreshingly informal style, this exciting text steers a middle course between elementary texts emphasizing connections with philosophy, logic, and electronic circuit design, and profound treatises aimed at advanced graduate students and professional mathematicians. It is written for readers who have studied at least two years of college-level mathematics. With carefully crafted prose, lucid explanations, and illuminating insights, it guides students to some of the deeper results of Boolean algebra --- and in particular to the important interconnections with topology --- without assuming a background in algebra, topology, and set theory. The parts of those subjects that are needed to understand the material are developed within the text itself.
Highlights of the book include the normal form theorem; the homomorphism extension theorem; the isomorphism theorem for countable atomless Boolean algebras; the maximal ideal theorem; the celebrated Stone representation theorem; the existence and uniqueness theorems for canonical extensions and completions; Tarski’s isomorphism of factors theorem for countably complete Boolean algebras, and Hanf’s related counterexamples; and an extensive treatment of the algebraic-topological duality, including the duality between ideals and open sets, homomorphisms and continuous functions, subalgebras and quotient spaces, and direct products and Stone-Cech compactifications.
A special feature of the book is the large number of exercises of varying levels of difficulty, from routine problems that help readers understand the basic definitions and theorems, to intermediate problems that extend or enrich material developed in the text, to harder problems that explore important ideas either not treated in the text, or that go substantially beyond its treatment. Hints for the solutions to the harder problems are given in an appendix. A detailed solutions manual for all exercises isavailable for instructors who adopt the text for a course.
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