Algebra, K-theory, groups, and education : on the occasion of Hyman Bass's 65th birthday / / T.Y. Lam, A.R. Magid, editors

• Pubblicazione: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1999]; ©1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Disciplina: 512
• Soggetto topico: Algebra; K-theory; Group theory; Mathematics - Study and teaching
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): BassHyman <1932->; LamT. Y <1942-> (Tsit-Yuen); MagidAndy R <1944-> (Andy Roy)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Program talks""; ""On the occasion of the 65th birthday of Hyman Bass""; ""A professional autobiography""; ""Crossing boundaries to examine the mathematics entailed in elementary teaching""; ""Bass's work on the Jacobian conjecture""; ""Torsion in genus class groups""; ""Hyman Bass and ubiquity: Gorenstein rings""; ""Introduction""; ""Plane Curves""; ""Commutative Algebra circa 1960""; ""Gorenstein Rings""; ""Examples and Low Codimension""; ""Injective Modules and Matlis Duality""; ""Ubiquity""; ""Homological Themes"" ; ""Inverse Powers and O-dimensional Gorenstein Rings""""Hilbert Functions""; ""Invariants and Gorenstein Rings""; ""Ubiquity and Module Theory""; ""Bibliography""; ""A salute to Euler and Dickson on the occasion of Hy's 65th birthday""; ""Bass's work in ring theory and projective modules""; ""Â0. Introduction""; ""Part I: Projective (and Torsionfree) Modules""; ""Â1. Big Projectives""; ""Â2. Stable Structure of Projective Modules""; ""Â3. Work Related to Serre's Conjecture""; ""Â4. Rings with Binary Generated Ideals: Bass Rings""; ""Part II: Ring Theory"" ; ""Â5. Semiperfect Rings as Generalizations of Semiprimary Rings""""Â6. Perfect Rings and Restricted DCC""; ""Â 7. Perfect Rings and Representation Theory""; ""Â8. Stable Range of Rings""; ""Â9. Rings of Stable Range One""; ""References""; ""One for almost all: generation of SL(n,p) by subsets of SL(n, Z)""; ""Deformations of representations""; ""Trees, lattices and commensurators""; ""A survey of obstruction theory for projective modules of top rank""; ""The congruence subgroup problem""; ""Three-manifold topology and the tree for PSL2: the Smith conjecture and beyond"" ; ""The development of algebraic K-theory before 1980""
• Titolo autorizzato: Algebra, K-theory, groups, and education
• ISBN: 0-8218-7833-6; 0-8218-5579-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480881203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; ; 243.