Algebra Books

Book SynopsisThis book provides a self-contained and accessible introduction to linear and multilinear algebra. Besides the standard techniques for linear and multilinear algebra many advanced topics are included. Emphasis is placed on the Kronecker product and tensor product. The Kronecker product has widespread applications in signal processing, discrete wavelets, statistical physics, computer graphics, fractals, quantum mechanics and quantum computing. All these fields are covered in detail. A key feature of the book is the many detailed worked-out examples. Computer algebra applications are also given. Each chapter includes useful exercises. The book is well suited for pure and applied mathematicians as well as theoretical physicists and engineers.New topics added to the second edition are: braid-like relations, Clebsch-Gordan expansion, nearest Kronecker product, Clifford and Pauli group, universal enveloping algebra, computer algebra and Kronecker product.Table of ContentsMatrix Calculus; Kronecker Product; Applications; Tensor Product; Braid-like Relations; Clebsch-Gordan Expansion; Nearest Kronecker Product; Clifford and Pauli Group; Universal Enveloping Algebra; Computer Algebra Implementation.

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Book SynopsisThis book is appropriate for second to fourth year undergraduates. In addition to the material traditionally taught at this level, the book contains several applications: Polya-Burnside Enumeration, Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares, Error-Correcting Codes and a classification of the finite groups of isometries of the plane and the finite rotation groups in Euclidean 3-space. It is hoped that these applications will help the reader achieve a better grasp of the rather abstract ideas presented and convince him/her that pure mathematics, in addition to having an austere beauty of its own, can be applied to solving practical problems.Considerable emphasis is placed on the algebraic system consisting of congruence classes mod n under the usual operations of addition and multiplication. The reader is thus introduced — via congruence classes — to the idea of cosets and factor groups. This enables the transition to cosets and factor objects in a more abstract setting to be relatively painless. The chapters dealing with applications help to reinforce the concepts and methods developed in the context of more down-to-earth problems.Most introductory texts in abstract algebra either avoid cosets, factor objects and homomorphisms completely or introduce them towards the end of the book. In this book, these topics are dealt with early on so that the reader has at his/her disposal the tools required to give elegant proofs of the fundamental theorems. Moreover, homomorphisms play such a prominent role in algebra that they are used in this text wherever possible, even if there are alternative methods of proof.Table of ContentsLogic and Proofs; Set Theory; Cartesian Products and Relations, Maps and Binary Operations; The Integers with a Thorough Treatment of Congruences; Groups (including the Sylow Theorems); Permutation Groups; Rings, Integral, Domains and Fields; Latin Squares; Polya-Burnside Enumeration; Group Codes; Polynomial Codes; and other chapters.

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Book SynopsisThe book provides a detailed account of basic coalgebra and Hopf algebra theory with emphasis on Hopf algebras which are pointed, semisimple, quasitriangular, or are of certain other quantum groups. It is intended to be a graduate text as well as a research monograph.Table of ContentsCoalgebras; Representations of Coalgebras; Filtrations and Gradings on Coalgebras; Bialgebras; The Convolution Algebra; Hopf Algebras; Hopf Modules and Co-Hopf Modules; Hopf Algebras as Modules Over Their Hopf Subalgebras; Integrals; Actions by Bialgebras and Hopf Algebras; Quasitriangular Bialgebras and Hopf Algebras; The Drinfel'd Double; Co-Quasitriangular Bialgebras and Hopf Algebras; Pointed Hopf Algebras; Finite-Dimensional Hopf Algebras Over a Field of Characteristic Zero.

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Book SynopsisThis book is appropriate for second to fourth year undergraduates. In addition to the material traditionally taught at this level, the book contains several applications: Polya-Burnside Enumeration, Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares, Error-Correcting Codes and a classification of the finite groups of isometries of the plane and the finite rotation groups in Euclidean 3-space. It is hoped that these applications will help the reader achieve a better grasp of the rather abstract ideas presented and convince him/her that pure mathematics, in addition to having an austere beauty of its own, can be applied to solving practical problems.Considerable emphasis is placed on the algebraic system consisting of congruence classes mod n under the usual operations of addition and multiplication. The reader is thus introduced — via congruence classes — to the idea of cosets and factor groups. This enables the transition to cosets and factor objects in a more abstract setting to be relatively painless. The chapters dealing with applications help to reinforce the concepts and methods developed in the context of more down-to-earth problems.Most introductory texts in abstract algebra either avoid cosets, factor objects and homomorphisms completely or introduce them towards the end of the book. In this book, these topics are dealt with early on so that the reader has at his/her disposal the tools required to give elegant proofs of the fundamental theorems. Moreover, homomorphisms play such a prominent role in algebra that they are used in this text wherever possible, even if there are alternative methods of proof.Table of ContentsLogic and Proofs; Set Theory; Cartesian Products and Relations, Maps and Binary Operations; The Integers with a Thorough Treatment of Congruences; Groups (including the Sylow Theorems); Permutation Groups; Rings, Integral, Domains and Fields; Latin Squares; Polya-Burnside Enumeration; Group Codes; Polynomial Codes; and other chapters.

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Book SynopsisThe book aims to survey recent developments in quantum algebras and related topics. Quantum groups were introduced by Drinfeld and Jimbo in 1985 in their work on Yang-Baxter equations. The subject from the very beginning has been an interesting one for both mathematics and theoretical physics. For example, Yangian is a special example of quantum group, corresponding to rational solution of Yang-Baxter equation. Viewed as a generalization of the symmetric group, Yangians also have close connections to algebraic combinatorics. This is the proceeding for the International Workshop on Quantized Algebra and Physics. The workshop aims to gather experts and young investigators from China and abroad to discuss research problems in integrable systems, conformal field theory, string theory, Lie theory, quantum groups including Yangians and their representations.Table of ContentsA Note on Brauer-Schur Functions (K Aokage et al.); O-Operators on Associative Algebras, Associative Yang-Baxter Equations and Dendriform Algebras (C-M Bai et al.); Irreducible Wakimoto-like Modules for the Affine Lie Algebra (Y Gao & Z-T Zeng); Verma Modules Over Generic Exp-Polynomial Lie Algebras (X-Q Guo et al.); Partially Harmonic Tensors and Quantized Schur-Weyl Duality (J Hu & Z-K Xiao); On Local Equivalences (N-H Jing); 2-Partitions of Root Systems (B Li et al.); A Survey on Weak Hopf Algebras (F Li & Q-X Sun); The Equitable Presentation for the Quantum Algebra (Uq(f(k)) (Y Pan et al.).

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Book SynopsisThe book aims to exemplify the recent developments in operad theory, in universal algebra and related topics in algebraic topology and theoretical physics. The conference has established a better connection between mathematicians working on operads (mainly the French team) and mathematicians working in universal algebra (primarily the Chinese team), and to exchange problems, methods and techniques from these two subject areas.Table of ContentsGrobner-Shirshov Bases for Categories (L A Bokut et al.); Operads, Clones, and Distributive Laws (P-L Curien); Leibniz Supalgebras Graded by Finite Root Systems (N-H Hu et al.); Generalized Disjunctive Languages and Universal Algebra (Y Liu); Koszul Duality of the Category of Trees and Bar Construction for Operads (M Livernet); Some Problems in Operad Theory (J-L Loday); Hom-Dendriform Algebras and Rota - Baxter Hom-Algebras (A Makhlouf); Free Field Realizations of the Current Algebras Associated with (Super) Lie Algebras (W-L Yang); Free TD Algebras and Rooted Trees (C-Y Zhou); Encyclopedia of Types of Algebras 2010 (G W Zinbiel); and other papers.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is an outcome of the International Conference on Algebra in celebration of the 70th birthday of Professor Shum Kar-Ping which was held in Gadjah Mada University on 7-10 October 2010. As a consequence of the wide coverage of his research interest and work, it presents 54 research papers, all original and referred, describing the latest research and development, and addressing a variety of issues and methods in semigroups, groups, rings and modules, lattices and Hopf Algebra. The book also provides five well-written expository survey articles which feature the structure of finite groups by A Ballester-Bolinches, R Esteban-Romero, and Yangming Li; new results of Gröbner-Shirshov basis by L A Bokut, Yuqun Chen, and K P Shum; polygroups and their properties by B Davvaz; main results on abstract characterizations of algebras of n-place functions obtained in the last 40 years by Wieslaw A Dudek and Valentin S Trokhimenko; Inverse semigroups and their generalizations by X M Ren and K P Shum. Recent work on cones of metrics and combinatorics done by M M Deza et al. is included.Table of ContentsInterval-Valued Graphs; Injective Envelope; Structure of Finite Groups; Semilattices; Archimedean Semigroups; Grobner-Shirshov Basis; Stable Lie Algebras; Polygroups and Their Properties; Semigroups of N-Ary Operations on Finite Sets; Cones of Weighted and Partial Matrices; Menger Algebras of N-Place Functions; Bialgebras; Malcev Algebra; Ternary Semiring; Chen Lie Algebras and Resonance Varieties; Restriction and Ehresmann Semigroups; Partially Solvable Finite Groups; Ordered Semigroups; Derivatives of Algebras and Superalgebras; Representations of Dialgebras and Conformal Algebras; Frobenius-Schur Indicators; Zariski Topology on the Prime Spectrum of a Module; Almost Distributive Lattices; S-Relatively Normal Almost Distributive Lattices; Pseudo-Complemented Almost Distributive Lattices; Inverse Semigroups; Sheaves Over Boolean Spaces; Semirings; Cotorsion Pairs of Complexes; Non-Permutative and Non-Idempotent Semigroups.

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Book SynopsisA large portion of the book can be used as a textbook for graduate and upper level undergraduate students in mathematics, communication engineering, computer science and other fields. The remaining part can be used as references for specialists. Explicit construction and computation of finite fields are emphasized. In particular, the construction of irreducible polynomials and normal basis of finite field is included. A detailed treatment of optimal normal basis and Galoi's rings is included. It is the first time that the galois rings are in book form.Table of ContentsSets and Integers; Groups; Fields and Rings; Polynomials; Residue Class Rings; Structure of Finite Fields; Further Properties of Finite Fields; Bases; Factoring Polynomials over Finite Fields; Irreducible Polynomials over Finite Fields; Quadratic Forms over Finite Fields; More Group Theory and Ring Theory; Hensel's Lemma and Hensel Lift; Galois Rings.

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Book SynopsisThis undergraduate textbook on Linear Algebra and n-Dimensional Geometry, in a self-teaching style, is invaluable for sophomore level undergraduates in mathematics, engineering, business, and the sciences. These are classical subjects on which there are many mathematics books in theorem-proof style, but this unique volume has its focus on developing the mathematical modeling as well as computational and algorithmic skills in students at this level. The explanations in this book are detailed, lucid, and supported with numerous well-constructed examples to capture the interest and encourage the student to master the material.Table of ContentsMethods for Formulating Real World Problems Using Systems of Simultaneous Linear Equations; Algorithms for Analyzing and Solving These Models; Fundamental Concepts in N-Dimensional Geometry, Matrices and Determinants; Eigen Values and Eigen Vectors and Their Importance; Software Systems for Linear Algebra Problems.

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Book SynopsisThis undergraduate textbook on Linear Algebra and n-Dimensional Geometry, in a self-teaching style, is invaluable for sophomore level undergraduates in mathematics, engineering, business, and the sciences. These are classical subjects on which there are many mathematics books in theorem-proof style, but this unique volume has its focus on developing the mathematical modeling as well as computational and algorithmic skills in students at this level. The explanations in this book are detailed, lucid, and supported with numerous well-constructed examples to capture the interest and encourage the student to master the material.Table of ContentsMethods for Formulating Real World Problems Using Systems of Simultaneous Linear Equations; Algorithms for Analyzing and Solving These Models; Fundamental Concepts in N-Dimensional Geometry, Matrices and Determinants; Eigen Values and Eigen Vectors and Their Importance; Software Systems for Linear Algebra Problems.

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Book SynopsisA generalization of Conventional Matrix Product (CMP), called the Semi-Tensor Product (STP), is proposed. It extends the CMP to two arbitrary matrices and maintains all fundamental properties of CMP. In addition, it has a pseudo-commutative property, which makes it more superior to CMP. The STP was proposed by the authors to deal with higher-dimensional data as well as multilinear mappings. After over a decade of development, STP has been proven to be a powerful tool in dealing with nonlinear and logical calculations.This book is a comprehensive introduction to the theory of STP and its various applications, including logical function, fuzzy control, Boolean networks, analysis and control of nonlinear systems, amongst others.Table of ContentsMulti-Dimensional Data; Semi-Tensor Product of Matrices; Multilinear Mappings Among Vector Spaces; Right and General Semi-Tensor Products; Rank, Pseudo-Inverse, and Positivity of STP; Matrix Expression of Logic; Mix-Valued Logic; Logical Matrix, Fuzzy Set and Fuzzy Logic; Fuzzy Relational Equation; Fuzzy Control with Coupled Fuzzy Relations; Boolean Function with Galois Field Structure; Decomposition of Logical Functions; Boolean Calculus; Lattice, Graph, and Universal Algebra; Boolean Network; Boolean Control System; Game Theory; Multi-Variable Polynomials; Some Applications to Differential Geometry and Algebra; Morgan's Problem; Linearization of Nonlinear Control Systems; Stability Region of Dynamic System.

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Book SynopsisThe book presents examples of important techniques and theorems for Groups, Lie groups and Lie algebras. This allows the reader to gain understandings and insights through practice. Applications of these topics in physics and engineering are also provided. The book is self-contained. Each chapter gives an introduction to the topic.Table of ContentsGroups; Lie Groups; Lie Algebras; Applications.

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Book SynopsisThe study of noncommutative rings is a major area in modern algebra. The structure theory of noncommutative rings was originally concerned with three parts: The study of semi-simple rings; the study of radical rings; and the construction of rings with given radical and semi-simple factor rings. Recently, this has extended to many new parts: The zero-divisor theory, containing the study of coefficients of zero-dividing polynomials and the study of annihilators over noncommutative rings, that is related to the Köthe's conjecture; the study of nil rings and Jacobson rings; the study of applying ring-theoretic properties to modules; representation theory; the study of relations between algebraic and concepts of other branches (for example, analytic and topological), etc. Thus, noncommutative rings are ubiquitous in mathematics, and occur in numerous sciences.This volume consists of a collection of original articles refereed by world experts that was presented at the Sixth China-Japan-Korea International Conference on Ring Theory. These articles exhibit new ideas, tools and techniques needed for successful research and investigation in noncommutative ring theory, and show the trend of current research. It is a useful resource book for beginners and advanced experts in ring theory.Table of ContentsAn Extension of Rings and Hochschild 2-Cocycles (M Tamer Kosan, Tsiu-Kwen Lee and Yiqiang Zhou); A Short Proof that Continuous Modules are Clean (V P Camillo, D Khurana, T Y Lam and W K Nicholson); Notes on Weakly d-Koszul Modules (Jia-Feng Lu and Xiao-Lan Yu); The Galois Map and Its Induced Maps (George Szeto and Lianyong Xue); A Note on Quasi-Johns Rings (Liang Shen); A New Pseudorandom Number Generator AST (Huiling Song); Von Neumann Regular Rings Satisfying Generalized Almost Comparability (Mamoru Kutami); On Symmetric Biderivations of Semiprime Rings (Asma Ali and Faiza Shujat); When Do the Direct Sums of Modules Inherit Certain Properties? (Gangyong Lee, S Tariq Rizvi and Cosmin Roman); Imprimitive Regular Action in the Ring of Integers Modulo n (Juncheol Han, Yang Lee and Sangwon Park); Notes on Simple-Baer Modules and Rings (Lixin Mao); A Note on Prime Rings with Left Derivations (Nadeem Ur Rehman); On Rings in Which Every Ideal is Prime (Hisaya Tsutsui); Rings over which Polynomial Rings are NI (Juncheol Han, Yang Lee and Sung Pil Yang); On the Faith Conjecture (Kiyoichi Oshiro); Study on the Algebraic Structures in Terms of Geometry and Deformation Theory (Fumiya Suenobu and Fujio Kubo); Structures on S G Near-Rings and -Groups (Yong Uk Cho); Some Commutativity Theorems Concerning Additive Mappings and Derivations on Semiprime Rings (Shakir Ali, Basudeb Dhara and Ajda Fosner).

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Book SynopsisThere are precisely two further generalizations of the real and complex numbers, namely, the quaternions and the octonions. The quaternions naturally describe rotations in three dimensions. In fact, all (continuous) symmetry groups are based on one of these four number systems. This book provides an elementary introduction to the properties of the octonions, with emphasis on their geometric structure. Elementary applications covered include the rotation groups and their spacetime generalization, the Lorentz group, as well as the eigenvalue problem for Hermitian matrices. In addition, more sophisticated applications include the exceptional Lie groups, octonionic projective spaces, and applications to particle physics including the remarkable fact that classical supersymmetry only exists in particular spacetime dimensions.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Division Algebras; Rotations; Lorentz Transformations; Spinors; The Right Eigenvalue Problem; The Exceptional Jordan Algebra; The Jordan Eigenvalue Problem; Lie Groups and Lie Algebras; Exceptional Lie Groups; The Dirac Equation; Octonionic Projective Spaces.

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Book SynopsisIn this book we want to explore aspects of coherence in homological algebra, that already appear in the classical situation of abelian groups or abelian categories. Lattices of subobjects are shown to play an important role in the study of homological systems, from simple chain complexes to all the structures that give rise to spectral sequences. A parallel role is played by semigroups of endorelations.These links rest on the fact that many such systems, but not all of them, live in distributive sublattices of the modular lattices of subobjects of the system.The property of distributivity allows one to work with induced morphisms in an automatically consistent way, as we prove in a ‘Coherence Theorem for homological algebra’. (On the contrary, a ‘non-distributive’ homological structure like the bifiltered chain complex can easily lead to inconsistency, if one explores the interaction of its two spectral sequences farther than it is normally done.)The same property of distributivity also permits representations of homological structures by means of sets and lattices of subsets, yielding a precise foundation for the heuristic tool of Zeeman diagrams as universal models of spectral sequences.We thus establish an effective method of working with spectral sequences, called ‘crossword chasing’, that can often replace the usual complicated algebraic tools and be of much help to readers that want to apply spectral sequences in any field.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Coherence and Models in Homological Algebra; Puppe-Exact Categories; Involutive Categories; Categories of Relations as RE-Categories; Theories and Models; Homological Theories and Their Universal Models; Appendix A: Some Points of Category Theory; Appendix B: A Proof for the Universal Exact System.

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Book SynopsisThis monograph is devoted to the study of Polygroup Theory. It begins with some basic results concerning group theory and algebraic hyperstructures, which represent the most general algebraic context, in which reality can be modeled. Most results on polygroups are collected in this book. Moreover, this monograph is the first book on this theory. The volume is highly recommended to theoreticians in pure and applied mathematics.Table of ContentsA Brief Excursion into Group Theory; Hypergroups: Definitions and Examples of Hypergroups; Some Kinds of Subhypergroups; Homomorphism of Hypergroups; Regular and Strongly Regular Relations; Complete Hypergroups; Join Spaces; Polygroups: Definition and Examples of Polygroups; Extensions of Polygroups by Polygroups; Subpolygroups and Quotient Polygroups; Isomorphism Theorem of Polygroups; γ* Relation on Polygroups; Generalized Permutation; Permutation Polygroups; Representation of Polygroups; Polygroup Hyperrings; Solvable Polygroups; Nilpotent Polygroups; Weak Polygroups: Weak Hyperstructures; Weak Polygroups; Fundamental Relation on Weak Polygroups; Small Weak Polygroups; Combinatorial Aspects of Polygroups: Chromatic Polygroups; Polygroups Derived from Cogroups; Conjugation Lattice.

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Book SynopsisWe propose here a study of ‘semiexact’ and ‘homological' categories as a basis for a generalised homological algebra. Our aim is to extend the homological notions to deeply non-abelian situations, where satellites and spectral sequences can still be studied.This is a sequel of a book on ‘Homological Algebra, The interplay of homology with distributive lattices and orthodox semigroups’, published by the same Editor, but can be read independently of the latter.The previous book develops homological algebra in p-exact categories, i.e. exact categories in the sense of Puppe and Mitchell — a moderate generalisation of abelian categories that is nevertheless crucial for a theory of ‘coherence’ and ‘universal models’ of (even abelian) homological algebra. The main motivation of the present, much wider extension is that the exact sequences or spectral sequences produced by unstable homotopy theory cannot be dealt with in the previous framework.According to the present definitions, a semiexact category is a category equipped with an ideal of ‘null’ morphisms and provided with kernels and cokernels with respect to this ideal. A homological category satisfies some further conditions that allow the construction of subquotients and induced morphisms, in particular the homology of a chain complex or the spectral sequence of an exact couple.Extending abelian categories, and also the p-exact ones, these notions include the usual domains of homology and homotopy theories, e.g. the category of ‘pairs’ of topological spaces or groups; they also include their codomains, since the sequences of homotopy ‘objects’ for a pair of pointed spaces or a fibration can be viewed as exact sequences in a homological category, whose objects are actions of groups on pointed sets.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Semiexact categories; Homological Categories; Subquotients, Homology and Exact Couples; Satellites; Universal Constructions; Applications to Algebraic Topology; Homological Theories and Biuniversal Models; Appendix A. Some Points of Category Theory.

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Book SynopsisThis is a matrix-oriented approach to linear algebra that covers the traditional material of the courses generally known as “Linear Algebra I” and “Linear Algebra II” throughout North America, but it also includes more advanced topics such as the pseudoinverse and the singular value decomposition that make it appropriate for a more advanced course as well. As is becoming increasingly the norm, the book begins with the geometry of Euclidean 3-space so that important concepts like linear combination, linear independence and span can be introduced early and in a “real” context. The book reflects the author's background as a pure mathematician — all the major definitions and theorems of basic linear algebra are covered rigorously — but the restriction of vector spaces to Euclidean n-space and linear transformations to matrices, for the most part, and the continual emphasis on the system Ax=b, make the book less abstract and more attractive to the students of today than some others. As the subtitle suggests, however, applications play an important role too. Coding theory and least squares are recurring themes. Other applications include electric circuits, Markov chains, quadratic forms and conic sections, facial recognition and computer graphics.

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Book SynopsisThis is a matrix-oriented approach to linear algebra that covers the traditional material of the courses generally known as “Linear Algebra I” and “Linear Algebra II” throughout North America, but it also includes more advanced topics such as the pseudoinverse and the singular value decomposition that make it appropriate for a more advanced course as well. As is becoming increasingly the norm, the book begins with the geometry of Euclidean 3-space so that important concepts like linear combination, linear independence and span can be introduced early and in a “real” context. The book reflects the author's background as a pure mathematician — all the major definitions and theorems of basic linear algebra are covered rigorously — but the restriction of vector spaces to Euclidean n-space and linear transformations to matrices, for the most part, and the continual emphasis on the system Ax=b, make the book less abstract and more attractive to the students of today than some others. As the subtitle suggests, however, applications play an important role too. Coding theory and least squares are recurring themes. Other applications include electric circuits, Markov chains, quadratic forms and conic sections, facial recognition and computer graphics.Table of ContentsEuclidean n-space; Matrices and Linear Equations; Determinants and Eigenvalues; Vector Spaces; Linear Transformations; Orthogonality; The Spectral Theorem.

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Book SynopsisThe first edition of this book is a collection of a series of lectures given by Professor Victor Kac at the TIFR, Mumbai, India in December 1985 and January 1986. These lectures focus on the idea of a highest weight representation, which goes through four different incarnations.The first is the canonical commutation relations of the infinite dimensional Heisenberg Algebra (= oscillator algebra). The second is the highest weight representations of the Lie algebra gℓ∞ of infinite matrices, along with their applications to the theory of soliton equations, discovered by Sato and Date, Jimbo, Kashiwara and Miwa. The third is the unitary highest weight representations of the current (= affine Kac-Moody) algebras. These Lie algebras appear in the lectures in connection to the Sugawara construction, which is the main tool in the study of the fourth incarnation of the main idea, the theory of the highest weight representations of the Virasoro algebra. In particular, the book provides a complete proof of the Kac determinant formula, the key result in representation theory of the Virasoro algebra.The second edition of this book incorporates, as its first part, the largely unchanged text of the first edition, while its second part is the collection of lectures on vertex algebras, delivered by Professor Kac at the TIFR in January 2003. The basic idea of these lectures was to demonstrate how the key notions of the theory of vertex algebras — such as quantum fields, their normal ordered product and lambda-bracket, energy-momentum field and conformal weight, untwisted and twisted representations — simplify and clarify the constructions of the first edition of the book.This book should be very useful for both mathematicians and physicists. To mathematicians, it illustrates the interaction of the key ideas of the representation theory of infinite dimensional Lie algebras and of the theory of vertex algebras; and to physicists, these theories are turning into an important component of such domains of theoretical physics as soliton theory, conformal field theory, the theory of two-dimensional statistical models, and string theory.Table of ContentsDefinition of Positive-Energy Representations of Vir; Complete Reducibility of the Oscillator Representations of Vir; Lie Algebras of Infinite Matrices; Boson - Fermion Correspondence; Schur Polynomials; N-Soliton Solutions; The Kac Determinant Formula; Nonabelian Generalization of Virasoro Operators: The Sugawara Construction; The Weyl - Kac Character Formula and Jacobi - Riemann Theta Functions; Completion of the Proof of the Kac Determinant Formula; Lambda - Bracket of Local Formal Distributions; Completion of U, Restricted Representations and Quantum Fields; Non-Commutative Wick Formula; Conformal Weights; Definition of a Vertex Algebra; Definition of a Representation of a Vertex Algebra; and other lectures.

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Book SynopsisThe first edition of this book is a collection of a series of lectures given by Professor Victor Kac at the TIFR, Mumbai, India in December 1985 and January 1986. These lectures focus on the idea of a highest weight representation, which goes through four different incarnations.The first is the canonical commutation relations of the infinite dimensional Heisenberg Algebra (= oscillator algebra). The second is the highest weight representations of the Lie algebra gℓ∞ of infinite matrices, along with their applications to the theory of soliton equations, discovered by Sato and Date, Jimbo, Kashiwara and Miwa. The third is the unitary highest weight representations of the current (= affine Kac-Moody) algebras. These Lie algebras appear in the lectures in connection to the Sugawara construction, which is the main tool in the study of the fourth incarnation of the main idea, the theory of the highest weight representations of the Virasoro algebra. In particular, the book provides a complete proof of the Kac determinant formula, the key result in representation theory of the Virasoro algebra.The second edition of this book incorporates, as its first part, the largely unchanged text of the first edition, while its second part is the collection of lectures on vertex algebras, delivered by Professor Kac at the TIFR in January 2003. The basic idea of these lectures was to demonstrate how the key notions of the theory of vertex algebras — such as quantum fields, their normal ordered product and lambda-bracket, energy-momentum field and conformal weight, untwisted and twisted representations — simplify and clarify the constructions of the first edition of the book.This book should be very useful for both mathematicians and physicists. To mathematicians, it illustrates the interaction of the key ideas of the representation theory of infinite dimensional Lie algebras and of the theory of vertex algebras; and to physicists, these theories are turning into an important component of such domains of theoretical physics as soliton theory, conformal field theory, the theory of two-dimensional statistical models, and string theory.Table of ContentsDefinition of Positive-Energy Representations of Vir; Complete Reducibility of the Oscillator Representations of Vir; Lie Algebras of Infinite Matrices; Boson - Fermion Correspondence; Schur Polynomials; N-Soliton Solutions; The Kac Determinant Formula; Nonabelian Generalization of Virasoro Operators: The Sugawara Construction; The Weyl - Kac Character Formula and Jacobi - Riemann Theta Functions; Completion of the Proof of the Kac Determinant Formula; Lambda - Bracket of Local Formal Distributions; Completion of U, Restricted Representations and Quantum Fields; Non-Commutative Wick Formula; Conformal Weights; Definition of a Vertex Algebra; Definition of a Representation of a Vertex Algebra; and other lectures.

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Book SynopsisAlgebraic Structure of Lattice-Ordered Rings presents an introduction to the theory of lattice-ordered rings and some new developments in this area in the last 10-15 years. It aims to provide the reader with a good foundation in the subject, as well as some new research ideas and topic in the field.This book may be used as a textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students who have completed an abstract algebra course including general topics on group, ring, module, and field. It is also suitable for readers with some background in abstract algebra and are interested in lattice-ordered rings to use as a self-study book.The book is largely self-contained, except in a few places, and contains about 200 exercises to assist the reader to better understand the text and practice some ideas.Table of ContentsPartially Ordered Sets; Lattices; Lattice-Ordered Groups; Vector Lattices; Lattice-Ordered Rings and Algebras; Lattice-Ordered Algebras with a d-Basis; Positive Derivations on Lattice-Ordered Rings; Recognition of Lattice-Ordered Matrix Rings with the Entrywise Order; Positive Cycles; Nonzero f-Elements in Lattice-Ordered Rings; Quotient Rings of Lattice-Ordered Ore Domains; Lattice-Ordered Matrix Algebras with Totally Ordered Integral Domains; d-Elements That Are Not Positive; Lattice-Ordered Triangular Matrix Rings; l-Ideals of Lattice-Ordered Rings with Positive Identity.

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Book SynopsisThis book gives a self- contained treatment of linear algebra with many of its most important applications. It is very unusual if not unique in being an elementary book which does not neglect arbitrary fields of scalars and the proofs of the theorems. It will be useful for beginning students and also as a reference for graduate students and others who need an easy to read explanation of the important theorems of this subject.It presents a self- contained treatment of the algebraic treatment of linear differential equation which includes all proofs. It also contains many different proofs of the Cayley Hamilton theorem. Other applications include difference equations and Markov processes, the latter topic receiving a more thorough treatment than usual, including the theory of absorbing states. In addition it contains a complete introduction to the singular value decomposition and related topics like least squares and the pseudo-inverse.Most major topics receive more than one discussion, one in the text and others being outlined in the exercises. The book also gives directions for using maple in performing many of the difficult algorithms.

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Book SynopsisThe content in Chapter 1-3 is a fairly standard one-semester course on local rings with the goal to reach the fact that a regular local ring is a unique factorization domain. The homological machinery is also supported by Cohen-Macaulay rings and depth. In Chapters 4-6 the methods of injective modules, Matlis duality and local cohomology are discussed. Chapters 7-9 are not so standard and introduce the reader to the generalizations of modules to complexes of modules. Some of Professor Iversen's results are given in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 is about Serre's intersection conjecture. The graded case is fully exposed. The last chapter introduces the reader to Fitting ideals and McRae invariants.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents methods for the computational solution of some important problems of linear algebra: linear systems, linear least squares problems, eigenvalue problems, and linear programming problems. The book also includes a chapter on the fast Fourier transform and a very practical introduction to the solution of linear algebra problems on modern supercomputers.The book contains the relevant theory for most of the methods employed. It also emphasizes the practical aspects involved in implementing the methods. Students using this book will actually see and write programs for solving linear algebraic problems. Highly readable FORTRAN and MATLAB codes are presented which solve all of the main problems studied.Table of ContentsReference Materials; Systems of Linear Equations; Linear Least Squares Problems; The Eigenvalue Problem; Linear Programming; The Fast Fourier Transform; Linear Algebra on Supercomputers;

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Book SynopsisThis book presents methods for the computational solution of some important problems of linear algebra: linear systems, linear least squares problems, eigenvalue problems, and linear programming problems. The book also includes a chapter on the fast Fourier transform and a very practical introduction to the solution of linear algebra problems on modern supercomputers.The book contains the relevant theory for most of the methods employed. It also emphasizes the practical aspects involved in implementing the methods. Students using this book will actually see and write programs for solving linear algebraic problems. Highly readable FORTRAN and MATLAB codes are presented which solve all of the main problems studied.Table of ContentsReference Materials; Systems of Linear Equations; Linear Least Squares Problems; The Eigenvalue Problem; Linear Programming; The Fast Fourier Transform; Linear Algebra on Supercomputers;

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Book SynopsisThe book is about (associative, Lie and other) algebras, groups, semigroups presented by generators and defining relations. They play a great role in modern mathematics. It is enough to mention the quantum groups and Hopf algebra theory, the Kac-Moody and Borcherds algebra theory, the braid groups and Hecke algebra theory, the Coxeter groups and semisimple Lie algebra theory, the plactic monoid theory. One of the main problems for such presentations is the problem of normal forms of their elements. Classical examples of such normal forms give the Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt theorem for universal enveloping algebras and Artin-Markov normal form theorem for braid groups in Burau generators.What is now called Gröbner-Shirshov bases theory is a general approach to the problem. It was created by a Russian mathematician A I Shirshov (1921-1981) for Lie algebras (explicitly) and associative algebras (implicitly) in 1962. A few years later, H Hironaka created a theory of standard bases for topological commutative algebra and B Buchberger initiated this kind of theory for commutative algebras, the Gröbner basis theory. The Shirshov paper was largely unknown outside Russia. The book covers this gap in the modern mathematical literature. Now Gröbner-Shirshov bases method has many applications both for classical algebraic structures (associative, Lie algebra, groups, semigroups) and new structures (dialgebra, pre-Lie algebra, Rota-Baxter algebra, operads). This is a general and powerful method in algebra.

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Book SynopsisIn the spirit of the author’s Basic Language of Mathematics, this companion volume is a careful exposition of the concepts and processes of Linear Algebra. It stresses cautious and clear explanations, avoiding reliance on co-ordinates as much as possible, and with special, but not exclusive, attention to the finite-dimensional situation. It is intended to also serve as a conceptual and technical background for use in geometry and analysis as well as other applications.Table of ContentsLinear Spaces and Linear Mappings; Properties of Linear Mappings; Linear Products and Coproducts; Families in Linear Spaces; Finite Dimension; Duality; Duality and Finite Dimension; Indexes;

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Book SynopsisIn an attempt to introduce application scientists and graduate students to the exciting topic of positive definite kernels and radial basis functions, this book presents modern theoretical results on kernel-based approximation methods and demonstrates their implementation in various settings. The authors explore the historical context of this fascinating topic and explain recent advances as strategies to address long-standing problems. Examples are drawn from fields as diverse as function approximation, spatial statistics, boundary value problems, machine learning, surrogate modeling and finance. Researchers from those and other fields can recreate the results within using the documented MATLAB code, also available through the online library. This combination of a strong theoretical foundation and accessible experimentation empowers readers to use positive definite kernels on their own problems of interest.Table of ContentsPositive Definite Kernels and Radial Basis Functions; Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces; Kriging; Green's Kernels; Generalized Sobolev Spaces; Alternate and Stable Interpolation Bases; Kernel Optimization; Examples in: Scattered Data Fitting, Surrogate Modeling, Spatial Statistics, Machine Learning, Boundary Value Problems, Finance;

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Book SynopsisThis volume is an outgrowth of the program Modular Representation Theory of Finite and p-Adic Groups held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at National University of Singapore during the period of 1-26 April 2013. It contains research works in the areas of modular representation theory of p-adic groups and finite groups and their related algebras. The aim of this volume is to provide a bridge — where interactions are rare between researchers from these two areas — by highlighting the latest developments, suggesting potential new research problems, and promoting new collaborations.It is perhaps one of the few volumes, if not only, which treats such a juxtaposition of diverse topics, emphasizing their common core at the heart of Lie theory.Table of ContentsRepresentation Theory and Cohomology of Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier Algebras (Alexander S Kleshchev); p-Modular Representations of p-Adic Groups (Florian Herzig); Cyclotomic Quiver Hecke Algebras of Type A (Andrew Mathas); l-Modular Representations of p-Adic Groups (l <> p) (Vincent Secherre);

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces entirely new invariants never considered before, in homological algebra and commutative (and even non-commutative) algebra. The C-completion C(M), and higher C-completions, Cn(M), are defined for an arbitrary left module M over a topological ring A. Spectral sequences are defined that use these invariants. Given a left module over a topological ring A, under mild conditions the usual Hausdorff completion: M^ can be recovered from the C-completion C(M), by taking the quotient module by the closure of {0}.The new invariants and tools in this book are expected to be used in the study of p-adic cohomology in algebraic geometry; and also in the study of p-adic Banach spaces — by replacing the cumbersome 'complete tensor product' of p-adic Banach spaces, with the more sophisticated 'C-complete tensor product', discussed in this book.It is also not unlikely that the further study of these new invariants may well develop into a new branch of abstract mathematics - connected with commutative algebra, homological algebra, and algebraic topology.Table of ContentsAdmissible Topological Rings; C-completion of an Abstract Module over a Topological Ring; Topological Rings that are C-OK; The higher C-completions; the Spectral Sequence of the C-completion; Inverse Limits and Higher Inverse Limits; Direct Sum and Direct Limit; Image of the Direct Sum in the Direct Product; The Special Properties of Noetherian Rings; Ext and Tor in the Category of C-complete Left A-modules (and Related Spectral Sequences);

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Book SynopsisThis volume deals with advanced topics in matrix theory using the notions and tools from algebra, analysis, geometry and numerical analysis. It consists of seven chapters that are loosely connected and interdependent. The choice of the topics is very personal and reflects the subjects that the author was actively working on in the last 40 years. Many results appear for the first time in the volume. Readers will encounter various properties of matrices with entries in integral domains, canonical forms for similarity, and notions of analytic, pointwise and rational similarity of matrices with entries which are locally analytic functions in one variable. This volume is also devoted to various properties of operators in inner product space, with tensor products and other concepts in multilinear algebra, and the theory of non-negative matrices. It will be of great use to graduate students and researchers working in pure and applied mathematics, bioinformatics, computer science, engineering, operations research, physics and statistics.Table of ContentsDomains, Modules and Matrices; Canonical Forms for Similarity; Functions of Matrices and Analytic Similarity; Inner Product Spaces; Elements of Multilinear Algebra; Nonnegative Matrices; Various Topics;

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Book SynopsisThe volume is focused on the basic calculation skills of various knot invariants defined from topology and geometry. It presents the detailed Hecke algebra and braid representation to illustrate the original Jones polynomial (rather than the algebraic formal definition many other books and research articles use) and provides self-contained proofs of the Tait conjecture (one of the big achievements from the Jones invariant). It also presents explicit computations to the Casson-Lin invariant via braid representations.With the approach of an explicit computational point of view on knot invariants, this user-friendly volume will benefit readers to easily understand low-dimensional topology from examples and computations, rather than only knowing terminologies and theorems.

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Book SynopsisThe volume is focused on the basic calculation skills of various knot invariants defined from topology and geometry. It presents the detailed Hecke algebra and braid representation to illustrate the original Jones polynomial (rather than the algebraic formal definition many other books and research articles use) and provides self-contained proofs of the Tait conjecture (one of the big achievements from the Jones invariant). It also presents explicit computations to the Casson-Lin invariant via braid representations.With the approach of an explicit computational point of view on knot invariants, this user-friendly volume will benefit readers to easily understand low-dimensional topology from examples and computations, rather than only knowing terminologies and theorems.

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Book SynopsisIn China, lots of excellent maths students take an active interest in various maths contests and the best six senior high school students will be selected to form the IMO National Team to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad. In the past ten years China's IMO Team has achieved outstanding results — they won the first place almost every year.The authors are coaches of China's IMO National Team, whose students have won many gold medals many times in IMO.This book is part of the Mathematical Olympiad Series which discusses several aspects related to maths contests, such as algebra, number theory, combinatorics, graph theory and geometry. The book explains many basic techniques for proving inequalities such as direct comparison, method of magnifying and reducing, substitution method, construction method, and so on.

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Book SynopsisThe book gives a detailed account of the development of the theory of algebraic equations, from its origins in ancient times to its completion by Galois in the nineteenth century. The appropriate parts of works by Cardano, Lagrange, Vandermonde, Gauss, Abel, and Galois are reviewed and placed in their historical perspective, with the aim of conveying to the reader a sense of the way in which the theory of algebraic equations has evolved and has led to such basic mathematical notions as 'group' and 'field'. A brief discussion of the fundamental theorems of modern Galois theory and complete proofs of the quoted results are provided, and the material is organized in such a way that the more technical details can be skipped by readers who are interested primarily in a broad survey of the theory.In this second edition, the exposition has been improved throughout and the chapter on Galois has been entirely rewritten to better reflect Galois' highly innovative contributions. The text now follows more closely Galois' memoir, resorting as sparsely as possible to anachronistic modern notions such as field extensions. The emerging picture is a surprisingly elementary approach to the solvability of equations by radicals, and yet is unexpectedly close to some of the most recent methods of Galois theory.

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to give a systematic exposition of results in some important cases where p-adic families and p-adic L-functions are studied. We first look at p-adic families in the following cases: general linear groups, symplectic groups and definite unitary groups. We also look at applications of this theory to modularity lifting problems. We finally consider p-adic L-functions for GL(2), the p-adic adjoint L-functions and some cases of higher GL(n).Table of ContentsAn Overview of Serre's p-Adic Modular Forms (Miljan Brakocevic and R Sujatha); p-Adic Families of Ordinary Siegel Cusp Forms (Jacques Tilouine); Ordinary Families on Definite Unitary Groups (Baskar Balasubramanyam and Dipramit Majumdar); Modularity Lifting Theorems for Ordinary Galois Representations (David Geraghty); p-Adic L-Functions for GL(2) (Mladen Dimitrov); Arithmetic of Adjoint L-Values (Haruzo Hida); p-Adic L-Functions for GL(n) (Debargha Banerjee and A Raghuram); Non-Triviality of Generalised Heegner Cycles Over Anticyclotomic Towers: A Survey (Ashay Burungale); The Euler System of Heegner Points and p-Adic L-Functions (Ming-Lun Hsieh); Non-Commutative q-Expansions (Mahesh Kakde);

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Book SynopsisThe volume is a collection of 20 refereed articles written in connection with lectures presented at the 12th International Conference on Finite Fields and Their Applications ('Fq12') at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY in July 2015. Finite fields are central to modern cryptography and secure digital communication, and hence must evolve rapidly to keep pace with new technologies. Topics in this volume include cryptography, coding theory, structure of finite fields, algorithms, curves over finite fields, and further applications.Contributors will include: Antoine Joux (Fondation Partenariale de l'UPMC, France); Gary Mullen (Penn State University, USA); Gohar Kyureghyan (Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Germany); Gary McGuire (University College Dublin, Ireland); Michel Lavrauw (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy); Kirsten Eisentraeger (Penn State University, USA); Renate Scheidler (University of Calgary, Canada); Michael Zieve (University of Michigan, USA).

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Book SynopsisThis is an introductory textbook designed for undergraduate mathematics majors with an emphasis on abstraction and in particular, the concept of proofs in the setting of linear algebra. Typically such a student would have taken calculus, though the only prerequisite is suitable mathematical grounding. The purpose of this book is to bridge the gap between the more conceptual and computational oriented undergraduate classes to the more abstract oriented classes. The book begins with systems of linear equations and complex numbers, then relates these to the abstract notion of linear maps on finite-dimensional vector spaces, and covers diagonalization, eigenspaces, determinants, and the Spectral Theorem. Each chapter concludes with both proof-writing and computational exercises.

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to provide a concise yet detailed account of fundamental concepts in modern algebra. The target audience for this book is first-year graduate students in mathematics, though the first two chapters are probably accessible to well-prepared undergraduates. The book covers a broad range of topics in modern algebra and includes chapters on groups, rings, modules, algebraic extension fields, and finite fields. Each chapter begins with an overview which provides a road map for the reader showing what material will be covered. At the end of each chapter we collect exercises which review and reinforce the material in the corresponding sections. These exercises range from straightforward applications of the material to problems designed to challenge the reader. We also include a list of 'Questions for Further Study' which pose problems suitable for master's degree research projects.

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to provide a concise yet detailed account of fundamental concepts in modern algebra. The target audience for this book is first-year graduate students in mathematics, though the first two chapters are probably accessible to well-prepared undergraduates. The book covers a broad range of topics in modern algebra and includes chapters on groups, rings, modules, algebraic extension fields, and finite fields. Each chapter begins with an overview which provides a road map for the reader showing what material will be covered. At the end of each chapter we collect exercises which review and reinforce the material in the corresponding sections. These exercises range from straightforward applications of the material to problems designed to challenge the reader. We also include a list of 'Questions for Further Study' which pose problems suitable for master's degree research projects.

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Book SynopsisThis is an introductory textbook designed for undergraduate mathematics majors with an emphasis on abstraction and in particular, the concept of proofs in the setting of linear algebra. Typically such a student would have taken calculus, though the only prerequisite is suitable mathematical grounding. The purpose of this book is to bridge the gap between the more conceptual and computational oriented undergraduate classes to the more abstract oriented classes. The book begins with systems of linear equations and complex numbers, then relates these to the abstract notion of linear maps on finite-dimensional vector spaces, and covers diagonalization, eigenspaces, determinants, and the Spectral Theorem. Each chapter concludes with both proof-writing and computational exercises.

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Book SynopsisThis second edition covers essentially the same topics as the first. However, the presentation of the material has been extensively revised and improved. In addition, there are two new chapters, one dealing with the fundamental theorem of finitely generated abelian groups and the other a brief introduction to semigroup theory and automata.This book is appropriate for second to fourth year undergraduates. In addition to the material traditionally taught at this level, the book contains several applications: Polya-Burnside Enumeration, Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares, Error-Correcting Codes, and a classification of the finite groups of isometries of the plane and the finite rotation groups in Euclidean 3-space, semigroups and automata. It is hoped that these applications will help the reader achieve a better grasp of the rather abstract ideas presented and convince him/her that pure mathematics, in addition to having an austere beauty of its own, can be applied to solving practical problems.Considerable emphasis is placed on the algebraic system consisting of the congruence classes mod n under the usual operations of addition and multiplication. The reader is thus introduced — via congruence classes — to the idea of cosets and factor groups. This enables the transition to cosets and factor objects to be relatively painless.In this book, cosets, factor objects and homomorphisms are introduced early on so that the reader has at his/her disposal the tools required to give elegant proofs of the fundamental theorems. Moreover, homomorphisms play such a prominent role in algebra that they are used in this text wherever possible.

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Book SynopsisThis second edition covers essentially the same topics as the first. However, the presentation of the material has been extensively revised and improved. In addition, there are two new chapters, one dealing with the fundamental theorem of finitely generated abelian groups and the other a brief introduction to semigroup theory and automata.This book is appropriate for second to fourth year undergraduates. In addition to the material traditionally taught at this level, the book contains several applications: Polya-Burnside Enumeration, Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares, Error-Correcting Codes, and a classification of the finite groups of isometries of the plane and the finite rotation groups in Euclidean 3-space, semigroups and automata. It is hoped that these applications will help the reader achieve a better grasp of the rather abstract ideas presented and convince him/her that pure mathematics, in addition to having an austere beauty of its own, can be applied to solving practical problems.Considerable emphasis is placed on the algebraic system consisting of the congruence classes mod n under the usual operations of addition and multiplication. The reader is thus introduced — via congruence classes — to the idea of cosets and factor groups. This enables the transition to cosets and factor objects to be relatively painless.In this book, cosets, factor objects and homomorphisms are introduced early on so that the reader has at his/her disposal the tools required to give elegant proofs of the fundamental theorems. Moreover, homomorphisms play such a prominent role in algebra that they are used in this text wherever possible.

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Book SynopsisIt is well known that most problems in science and engineering eventually progress into matrix problems. This book gives an elementary introduction to applied matrix theory and it also includes some new results obtained in recent years.The book consists of eight chapters. It includes perturbation and error analysis; the conjugate gradient method for solving linear systems; preconditioning techniques; and least squares algorithms based on orthogonal transformations, etc. The last two chapters include some latest development in the area. In Chap. 7, we construct optimal preconditioners for functions of matrices. More precisely, let f be a function of matrices. Given a matrix A, there are two choices of constructing optimal preconditioners for f(A). Properties of these preconditioners are studied for different functions. In Chap. 8, we study the Bottcher-Wenzel conjecture and discuss related problems.This is a textbook for senior undergraduate or junior graduate students majoring in science and engineering. The material is accessible to students who, in various disciplines, have basic linear algebra, calculus, numerical analysis, and computing knowledge. The book is also useful to researchers in computational science who are interested in applied matrix theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction and Review; Norms and Perturbation Analysis; Least Squares Problems; Moore-Penrose Generalized Inverse; Conjugate Gradient Method; Optimal and Superoptimal Preconditioners; Optimal Preconditioners for Functions of Matrices; Bottcher-Wenzel Conjecture and Related Problems;

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book that focuses on practical algorithms for polynomial inequality proving and discovering. It is a summary of the work by the authors and their collaborators on automated inequality proving and discovering in recent years. Besides brief introduction to some classical results and related work in corresponding chapters, the book mainly focuses on the algorithms initiated by the authors and their collaborators, such as real root counting, real root classification, improved CAD projection, dimension-decreasing algorithm, difference substitution, and so on. All the algorithms were rigorously proved and the implementations are demonstrated by lots of examples in various backgrounds such as algebra, geometry, biological science, and computer science.See Press Release: A collection of practical algorithms for polynomial inequality proving and discoveringTable of ContentsIntroduction; Basics of Elimination Method; Zero Decomposition for Polynomial System; Triangularization of Semi-Algebraic System; Real Root Counting; Real Root Isolation; Real Root Classification; Polynomial Optimization Based on Improved CAD Projection; Dimension-Decreasing Algorithm; Difference Substitution; SOS Decomposition; Inequality Proving Beyond the Tarski Model;

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