Download or read book The Algebraic Theory of Semigroups, Volume I written by Alfred Hoblitzelle Clifford and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1961-12-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The material in this volume was presented in a second-year graduate course at Tulane University, during the academic year 1958-1959. The book aims at being largely self-contained, but it is assumed that the reader has some familiarity with sets, mappings, groups, and lattices. Only in Chapter 5 will more preliminary knowledge be required, and even there the classical definitions and theorems on the matrix representations of algebras and groups are summarized.