Lattices and Ordered Algebraic Structures (Universitext)

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Lattices and Ordered Algebraic Structures provides a lucid and concise introduction to the basic results concerning the notion of an order. Although as a whole it is mainly intended for beginning postgraduates, the prerequisities are minimal and selected parts can profitably be used to broaden the horizon of the advanced undergraduate.

The treatment is modern, with a slant towards recent developments in the theory of residuated lattices and ordered regular semigroups. Topics covered include: residuated mappings; Galois connections; modular, distributive, and complemented lattices; Boolean algebras; pseudocomplemented lattices; Stone algebras; Heyting algebras; ordered groups; lattice-ordered groups; representable groups; Archimedean ordered structures; ordered semigroups; naturally ordered regular and inverse Dubreil-Jacotin semigroups.

Featuring material that has been hitherto available only in research articles, and an account of the range of applications of the theory, there are also many illustrative examples and numerous exercises throughout, making it ideal for use as a course text, or as a basic introduction to the field for researchers in mathematics, logic and computer science.

Algebra in the Stone-Cech Compactification: Theory and Applications (De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics, 27) (De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics)

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Algebra in the Stone-Cech Compactification: Theory and Applications (De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics, 27) (De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics)
Neil Hindman , and Dona Strauss
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A study of the algebraic properties of compact right topological semigroups in general and the Stone-Cech compactification of a discrete semigroup in particular. Several powerful applications to combinatorics, primarily to the branch of combinatorics known as Ramsey Theory, are given. Connections with topological dynamics and ergodic theory are also presented.

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Algebraic Theory of Automata Networks investigates automata networks as algebraic structures and develops their theory in line with other algebraic theories. Automata networks are investigated as products of automata, and the fundamental results in regard to automata networks are surveyed and extended, including the main decomposition theorems of Letichevsky, and of Krohn and Rhodes. The text summarizes the most important results of the past four decades regarding automata networks and presents many new results discovered since the last book on this subject was published. Several new methods and special techniques are discussed, including characterization of homomorphically complete classes of automata under the cascade product; products of automata with semi-Letichevsky criterion and without any Letichevsky criteria; automata with control words; primitive products and temporal products; network completeness for digraphs having all loop edges; complete finite automata network graphs with minimal number of edges; and emulation of automata networks by corresponding asynchronous ones.

Completely Regular Semigroups (Wiley-Interscience and Canadian Mathematics Series of Monographs and Texts)

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Completely Regular Semigroups (Wiley-Interscience and Canadian Mathematics Series of Monographs and Texts)
Mario Petrich , and Norman R. Reilly
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Present a systematic treatment of completely regular semigroups, from introductory to research level, comprised of preliminaries on lattices, semigroups, varieties, and complete regularity; congruences and relations on the congruence lattice; and varieties of completely regular semigroups through kernals, and traces of congruences and Malcev products.

Advances in Quantum Dynamics: Proceedings of the Ams-Ims-Siam Joint Summer Research Conference on Advances in Quantum Dynamics, June 16-20, 2002, Mount ... College, South (Contemporary Mathematics)

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Advances in Quantum Dynamics: Proceedings of the Ams-Ims-Siam Joint Summer Research Conference on Advances in Quantum Dynamics, June 16-20, 2002, Mount ... College, South (Contemporary Mathematics)
Ams-Ims-Siam Joint Summer Research Conference
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Algebraic Engineering
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
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The Algebraic Theory of Semigroups (Mathematical Survey, No 7)

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An essential for semigroup theorists

The Algebraic Theory of Semigroups (Mathematical Survey, No 7)
A. H. Clifford , and G. B. Preston
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The material in this volume was presented in a second-year graduate course at Tulane University, during the academic year 1958--1959. The book aims at being largely self-contained, but it is assumed that the reader has some familiarity with sets, mappings, groups, and lattices. Only in Chapter 5 will more preliminary knowledge be required, and even there the classical definitions and theorems on the matrix representations of algebras and groups are summarized.

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An essential for semigroup theorists.......2000-10-04

Often referred to as the "bible of semigroup theory", this text is essential reading for anyone interested in semigroup theory. It provides a thorough exposition of the fundamentals of algebraic semigroup theory including Green's relations, the Rees Theorem, and Schutzenberger groups. It is clear, concise and well-orgainzed, making for an easy and even pleasant reading.

The analogue of the group algebra for topological semigroups (Research notes in mathematics)

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The analogue of the group algebra for topological semigroups (Research notes in mathematics)
H. A. M Dzinotyiweyi
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Analogue of the Group Algebra for Topological Semigroups.

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Analogue of the Group Algebra for Topological Semigroups.
H. A. M. Dzinotyiweyi
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Analysis on Semigroups: Function Spaces, Compactifications, Representations (Canadian Mathematical Society Series of Monographs and Advanced Texts)

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Analysis on Semigroups: Function Spaces, Compactifications, Representations (Canadian Mathematical Society Series of Monographs and Advanced Texts)
John F. Berglund , Hugo D. Junghenn , and Paul Milnes
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The title story of this collection refers to Holmes' emergence from retirement to help the government fight the German threat at the approach of the First World War. Several of the detective's earlier cases complete the volume, including "Wisteria Lodge," "The Disappearance of Lady Frances
Carfax," and "The Dying Detective."

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The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional attacks of rheumatism. He has, for many years, lived in a small farm upon the downs five miles from Eastbourne, where his time is divided between philosophy and agriculture.

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Not exactly the bee's knees.......2005-07-26

The thing I like about a good Sherlock Holmes short story is its brevity and muscular leanness, so when I see backstory, even for a few pages, I roll my eyes - I want Holmes, detection, maybe a bit of action, not some tale of jealousy or treachery from the tropics or wherever. The first three stories in this collection evaporate in a daze of backstory - they the had potential to be good but they blew it. As for the other stories, the Dying Detective is an interesting addition to the canon but nothing special. The Devil's Foot, whilst certainly above average, falls a bit flat in the end with Holmes doing his detection largely off stage. The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax is okay. His Last Bow feels like the last chapter of some John Buchan adventure novel and is hugely disappointing, just like that other endstop, the overrated Final Problem. "There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet." And there was me thinking the Rathbone film had invented that naffness from scratch. The obvious winner is the Bruce-Partington Plans. It's got detection, action, and Mycroft. Worth admission price alone.

Fourth-best of the Sherlock Holmes short story collections!.......2004-12-09

Although he also wrote several novels featuring the world's greatest fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, it was especially in his short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle perfected the Holmes formula. "His Last Bow" (published in 1917) is the fourth of the five collections of Holmes short stories. The other collections all featured a dozen stories, but only eight stories make up "His Last Bow". The title is based on the final story of the same name, which portrays the retired Holmes active in bee-keeping, and emerging from retirement only to protect English secrets during the First World War. Doyle was arguably past his prime in producing Sherlock Holmes stories, but this is still a very good collection of stories, and although there are only eight stories, unlike some of the other collections there is no obviously inferior story among them. The Bruce-Partington Plans, The Dying Detective and The Devil's Foot are especially outstanding, but all the other stories in this collection are very good as well. It may not match the brilliance and popularity of the first three collections ("The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"), but it's not far behind, and Holmes fans will find every one of the eight stories of "His Last Bow" most enjoyable.

Here's a list of the stories in this collection (with the better stories marked with stars):
Wisteria Lodge, 1908 - This two-part story recounts the strange experiences of Mr. John Scott Eccles, whose Spanish host Garcia and his two servants mysteriously vanish overnight. How is the exiled tyrant Don Murillo, the Tiger of San Pedro, behind these events?
The Cardboard Box, 1893 - Susan Cushing opens a parcel in a box, horrified to find two severed human ears - but whose are they and why are they sent to her?
The Red Circle, 1911 - Mrs. Warren has a mysterious lodger who never emerges from his room, and how is this connected to a secret society called "the Red Circle"?
*The Bruce-Partington Plans, 1908 - Some top-secret plans for a Bruce-Partington submarine are found in the pockets of a dead man who falls off a train, but where are the rest of the plans, and how and why did they get stolen?
*The Dying Detective, 1913 - Holmes is delirious and dying of a tropical Chinese disease. His only hope for survival appears to be Mr. Culverton Smith, a specialist in such diseases, but unfortunately also a criminal who would be glad to see Holmes die.
Lady Frances Carfax, 1911 - When Lady Frances Carfax goes missing, her life is unwittingly threatened by Holy Peters, an unscrupulous criminal from Australia who is now posing as someone else.
*The Devil's Foot, 1910 - A thrilling and convincing story, as Mortimer Tregennis reports the bizarre death of his sister and sudden madness of his two brothers. The story complicates with the death of Mortimer himself, and the involvement of the African explorer Dr. Leon Sterndale. Holmes discounts supernatural involvement, and looks for some natural explanation.
His Last Bow, 1917 - Holmes emerges from his retirement (spent beekeeping and completing his magnus opus "Practical Handbook of Bee Culture") to thwart the German spy Baron Von Bork from disclosing secret English documents on the eve of World War I.
- GODLY GADFLY

Master of deduction and analysis.......2002-09-11

This is a collection of eight short stories, first published in October 1917, narrating some of the adventures of detective Sherlock Holmes, the last one entitled "His Last Bow." Sherlock Holmes is amongst the most famous characters ever created in literature, his popularity overshadowing his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to the point that some people are under the impression that Sherlock Holmes in fact existed. The inspiration came from Dr. Joseph Bell, a friend and tutor to Conan Doyle and who shared many personality features with the famous detective.
The author had Sherlock Holmes killed but public demand was so high for further adventures that we find him back in action. Determined to have a permanent retirement, Sherlock Holmes moves into a small farm and dedicates himself to other matters, refusing to offer his intellectual ability to the government. With World War I approaching he backs up on this determination and his return into action is narrated in "His Last Bow." The cases range from theft, burglary, kidnapping, to murder, and in all of the them Sherlock Holmes is a master in the science of deduction and analysis.
By those considered expert "Sherlockians," this is not Holmes at his best and certainly not as good as his masterpiece "The Hound of the Baskervilles."

Last chance to enjoy Holmes.......2001-02-02

After being killed in an adventure, Holmes suddenly reappears. Of course, the first thing he does is to tell how he came back alive. And then new, last stories, come up. The edition I read includes "The valley of terror", a convoluted and terrifying story in which Holmes participates indirectly. One can not go wrong with Holmes. Inevitably, the quality of the stories is varied, but they are always fun to read. Doyle is indeed a great writer, who must be counted among the best writers, right there with the big language-innovators and "serious" literates.

One of The Best.......2000-07-25

All the Sherlock Holmes short stories collections are 5 star efforts, of course, but this one has some of my absolute favorites in it. Sure, they aren't as well known as those in "The Adventures" or "The Hound..." novel, but they are great nonetheless. Particularly of interest are "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" and "The Adventure of the Dying Detective", a very suspenseful story indeed! These are must read Holmes tales.

His Last Bow - Some Reminiscences Of Sherlock Holmes

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His Last Bow - Some Reminiscences Of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan, Sir; Edited, with an Introduction by Edwards, Owen Dudley Doyle
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His Last Bow : A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes

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His Last Bow : A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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His Last Bow A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Preface - His Last Bow The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional attacks of rheumatism. He has, for many years, lived in a small farm upon the downs five miles from Eastbourne, where his time is divided between philosophy and agriculture. During this period of rest he has refused the most princely offers to take up various cases, having determined that his retirement was a permanent one. The approach of the German war caused him however, to lay his remarkable combination of intellectual and practical activity at the disposal of the government, with historical results which are recounted in His Last Bow. Several previous experiences which have lain long in my portfolio have been added to His Last Bow so as to complete the volume. John H. Watson, M. D.

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His last bow,: A reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes,
Arthur Conan Doyle
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His Last Bow. A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes
A.CONAN DOYLE
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HIS LAST BOW: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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His last bow: Some reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (John Murray paperbacks)

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His last bow: Some reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (John Murray paperbacks)
Arthur Conan Doyle
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