There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

This text, drawn from the author's lectures at the University of California at Berkeley, is intended as a textbook for a one-term course in basic ring theory. The material covered includes the Wedderburn-Artin theory of semi-simple rings, Jacobson's theory of the radical representation theory of groups and algebras, prime and semi-prime rings, primitive and semi-primitive rings, division rings, ordered rings, local and semi-local rings, and perfect and semi-perfect rings. By aiming the level of writing at the novice rather than at the expert, and by stressing the role of examples and motivation, the author has produced a text which is suitable not only for use in a graduate course, but also for self-study by other interested graduate students. Numerous exercises are also included. This graduate textbook on rings, fields and algebras is intended for graduate students in mathematics.

A first course in noncommutative rings, by T. Y. Lam. Pp. 385. £37 (pb), £62.50 (hb). 2001. ISBN 0 387 95325 6 (pb), 0 387 95183 0 (hb) (Springer-Verlag).

4-manifolds: Introduction Surfaces in 4-manifolds Complex surfaces Kirby calculus: Handelbodies and Kirby diagrams Kirby calculus More examples Applications: Branched covers and resolutions Elliptic and Lefschetz fibrations Cobordisms, $h$-cobordisms and exotic ${\mathbb{R}}^{4,}$s Symplectic 4-manifolds Stein surfaces Appendices: Solutions Notation, important figures Bibliography Index.

4-manifolds and Kirby calculus

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to module theory and the related part of ring theory, including original results as well as the most recent work. It is a useful and stimulating study for those new to the subject as well as for researchers and serves as a reference volume. Starting form a basic understanding of linear algebra, the theory is presented and accompanied by complete proofs. For a module M, the smallest Grothendieck category containing it is denoted by o[M] and module theory is developed in this category. Developing the techniques in o[M] is no more complicated than in full module categories and the higher generality yields significant advantages: for example, module theory may be developed for rings without units and also for non-associative rings. Numerous exercises are included in this volume to give further insight into the topics covered and to draw attention to related results in the literature.

Foundations of Module and Ring Theory : A Handbook for Study and Research

A review of fuzzy set aggregation connectives

Infinite Abelian groups

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Partially Ordered Algebraic Systems

Commutative domains and their modules Valuation domains Prufer domains More non-Noetherian domains Finitely generated modules Projectivity and projective dimension Divisible modules Topology and filtration Injective modules Uniserial modules Heights, invariants and basic submodules Polyserial modules RD- and pure-injectivity Torsion modules Torsion-free modules of finite rank Infinite rank torsion-free modules Appendix on set theory Bibliography Author index Subject index.

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Modules over non-Noetherian domains

Modules over valuation domains

For a commutative domain R with 1, an R-module B is called a Baer module if ExtR (B, T) = 0 for all torsion R-modules T. The structure of Baer modules over arbitrary domains is investigated, and the problem is reduced to the case of countably generated Baer modules. This requires a general version of the singular compactness theorem. As an application we show that over hlocal Prufer domains, Baer modules are necessarily projective. In addition, we establish an independence result for a weaker version of Baer modules.

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László Fuchs

Papers

Infinite Abelian groups

Partially Ordered Algebraic Systems

Modules over non-Noetherian domains

Modules over valuation domains

Baer modules over domains