Stone Spaces (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Series Number 3) - Softcover

Johnstone, Peter T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521337798 ISBN 13: 9780521337793

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Over the last 45 years, Boolean theorem has been generalized and extended in several different directions and its applications have reached into almost every area of modern mathematics; but since it lies on the frontiers of algebra, geometry, general topology and functional analysis, the corpus of mathematics which has arisen in this way is seldom seen as a whole. In order to give a unified treatment of this rather diverse body of material, Dr Johnstone begins by developing the theory of locales (a lattice-theoretic approach to 'general topology without points' which has achieved some notable results in the past ten years but which has not previously been treated in book form). This development culminates in the proof of Stone's Representation Theorem.

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Book Description:

A unified treatment of the corpus of mathematics that has developed out of M. H. Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras (1936) which has applications in almost every area of modern mathematics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0521337798
• ISBN 13: 9780521337793
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 396