SELECTED PAPERS AND OTHER WRITINGS by Irving Kaplansky ( 9781461494522 )

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SELECTED PAPERS AND OTHER WRITINGS

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ISBN 10:

1461494524

ISBN 13:

9781461494522

Publisher:

SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK INC.

Pub. date:

14 November, 2013

Edition:

1995. Reprint 2013 of the 1995 edition

Series:

Springer Collected Works in Mathematics

Pages:

257

Description:

This book offers a collection of 22 research papers of Irving Kaplansky, each followed up with new comments, often including references to later papers by other authors. Also included are eight hitherto unpublished items, covering a variety of topics.

Synopsis:

It is not often that one gets to write a preface to a collection of one's own papers. The most urgent task is to thank the people who made this book possible. That means first of all Hy Bass who, on behalf of Springer-Verlag, approached me about the idea. The late Walter Kaufmann-Biihler was very encouraging; Paulo Ribenboim helped in an important way; and Ina Lindemann saw the project through with tact and skill that I deeply appreciate. My wishes have been indulged in two ways. First, I was allowed to follow up each selected paper with an afterthought. Back in my student days I became aware of the Gesammelte Mathematische Werke of Dedekind, edited by Fricke, Noether, and Ore. I was impressed by the editors' notes that followed most of the papers and found them very usefuL A more direct model was furnished by the collected papers of Lars Ahlfors, in which the author himself supplied afterthoughts for each paper or group of papers. These were tough acts to follow, but I hope that some readers will find at least some of my afterthoughts interesting. Second, I was permitted to add eight previously unpublished items. My model here, to a certain extent, was the charming little book, A Mathematician's Miscel- lany by J. E. Littlewood. In picking these eight I had quite a selection to make -from fourteen loose-leaf notebooks of such writings. Here again I hope that at least some will be found to be of interest.

Illustrations:

1 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 257 p. 1 illus.

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Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

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