Simple Relation Algebras
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The book is written with a broad audience in mind and features a careful, pedagogical approach; an appendix contains the requisite background material in relation algebras. Over 400 exercises provide ample opportunities to engage with the material, making this a monograph equally appropriate for use in a special topics course or for independent study. Readers interested in pursuing an extended background study of relation algebras will find a comprehensive treatment in author Steven Givantโs textbook, Introduction to Relation Algebras (Springer, 2017).
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Steven Givant is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Mills College, California. As a long-term collaborator of Alfred Tarskiโone of the great logiciansโGivant has been involved first-hand in the development of the field of relation algebras since the 1970s. His other books include Introduction to Relation Algebras and Advanced Topics in Relation Algebras (Springer, 2017), Duality Theories for Boolean Algebras with Operators (Springer, 2014), Introduction to Boolean Algebras, with Paul Halmos (Springer, 2009), Logic as Algebra, with Paul Halmos (MAA, 1998), and A Formalization of Set Theory without Variables, with Alfred Tarski (AMS, 1987). He was also a coeditor, with Ralph McKenzie, of the collected papers of Alfred Tarski (Birkhรคuser, 1986).
Hajnal Andrรฉka is a Professor of Mathematics at the Alfrรฉd Rรฉnyi Institute of Mathematics in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She has been a prominentfigure in the development of relation algebra theory since the 1970s and won the prestigious Alfrรฉd Rรฉnyi Prize in 1987. Her other books include Universal Algebraic Logic, with Istvรกn Nรฉmeti and Ildikรณ Sain (Birkhรคuser, 2017), Decision Problems for Equational Theories of Relation Algebras, with Steven Givant and Istvรกn Nรฉmeti (AMS, 1997), and Cylindric Set Algebras, with Leon Henkin, J. Donald Monk, Alfred Tarski, and Istvรกn Nรฉmeti (Springer, 1981).
