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Author / Creator:Kelarev, A. V. (Andrei V.)
Imprint:New York : Marcel Dekker, c2003.
Description:viii, 366 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Monographs and textbooks in pure and applied mathematics ; 257
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4926252
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ISBN:0824747089
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-350) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 1.1. Sets
  • 1.2. Sequences
  • 1.3. Functions or Mappings
  • 1.4. Operations
  • 1.5. Modular Arithmetic
  • 1.6. Extended Euclidean Algorithm
  • 1.7. Euler's Theorem and RSA Cryptosystem
  • 1.8. Relations
  • 1.9. Graphs
  • 1.10. Exercises
  • 2. Algebraic Structures
  • 2.1. Words and Free Monoids
  • 2.2. Groupoids
  • 2.3. Semigroups and Monoids
  • 2.4. Cayley Graphs
  • 2.5. Groups
  • 2.6. Commutative Semigroups
  • 2.7. Rees Matrix Semigroups
  • 2.8. Finite Semigroups
  • 2.9. Lattices
  • 2.10. Boolean Algebras
  • 2.11. Rings
  • 2.12. Fields and Vector Spaces
  • 2.13. Polynomial Rings and Finite Fields
  • 2.14. Matrix Rings
  • 2.15. Linear Codes
  • 2.16. Cyclic Codes
  • 2.17. Universal Algebras
  • 2.18. Exercises
  • 3. Automata and Languages
  • 3.1. Finite State Automata
  • 3.2. Language Accepted by Automata
  • 3.3. Operations on Languages, Regular Expressions
  • 3.4. Algorithm 1: Language Accepted by FSA
  • 3.5. Constructing Automata for Languages
  • 3.6. Algorithm 2: Language Accepted by FSA
  • 3.7. Minimization Algorithm
  • 3.8. Syntactic and Transformation Monoids
  • 3.9. Krohn-Rhodes Decomposition Theorem
  • 3.10. Grammars and Rewriting Systems
  • 3.11. Other Classes of Automata
  • 3.12. Tree Languages
  • 3.13. Exercises
  • 4. Syntactic Monoids of Automata
  • 5. Congruences on Automata
  • 6. Minimal Automata
  • 7. Languages
  • 8. Tree Languages
  • 9. Equational Theories
  • 10. Groupoid Rings
  • 11. Dualities, Topologies, Flatness
  • 12. Open Problems
  • Appendix A.. Glossary of Notation
  • Bibliography
  • Index