Download or read book Semigroups and Combinatorial Applications written by Gerard Lallement and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1979 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to present those parts of the theory of semigroups that are directly related to automata theory, algebraic linguistics, and combinatorics. Publications in these mathematical disciplines contained methods and results pertaining to the algebraic theory of semigroups, and this has contributed to considerable enrichment of the theory, enlargement of its scope, and improved its potential to become a major domain of algebra. Semigroup theory appears to provide a general framework for unifying and clarifying a number of topics in fields that at first sight appear unrelated. This book is intended as a textbook for graduate students in mathematics and computer science, and as a reference book for researchers interested in associative structures.