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
• 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 -- 1. Big Projectives -- 2. Stable Structure of Projective Modules -- 3. Work Related to Serre's Conjecture -- 4. Rings with Binary Generated Ideals: Bass Rings -- Part II: Ring Theory -- 5. Semiperfect Rings as Generalizations of Semiprimary Rings -- 6. Perfect Rings and Restricted DCC -- 7. Perfect Rings and Representation Theory -- 8. Stable Range of Rings -- 9. 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.: 9910811525103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society). ; 243 . 0271-4132