Wagner’s Theory of Generalised Heaps

• Main Authors: Hollings, Christopher D. (Author), Lawson, Mark V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Group theory.; Differential geometry.; History.; Group Theory and Generalizations.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Differential Geometry.

The theories of V. V. Wagner (1908-1981) on abstractions of systems of binary relations are presented here within their historical and mathematical contexts. This book contains the first translation from Russian into English of a selection of Wagner’s papers, the ideas of which are connected to pres...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Viktor VladimirovichWagner (1908–1981)
• 3. Wagner’s work in historical context
• 4. Notes on the translations
• 5. A ternary algebraic operation in the theory of coordinate structures
• 6. On the theory of partial transformations
• 7. Generalised groups
• 8. Theory of generalised heaps and generalised groups
• 9. Generalised heaps as affine structures.  - Wagner’s publications. –Index.