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Continuous Geometry

Continuous Geometry

Paperback

Series: Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics and Physics, Book 22

Geometry

ISBN10: 0691058938
ISBN13: 9780691058931
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: May 10 1998
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.94 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

In his work on rings of operators in Hilbert space, John von Neumann discovered a new mathematical structure that resembled the lattice system Ln. In characterizing its properties, von Neumann founded the field of continuous geometry.

This book, based on von Neumann's lecture notes, begins with the development of the axioms of continuous geometry, dimension theory, and--for the irreducible case--the function D(a). The properties of regular rings are then discussed, and a variety of results are presented for lattices that are continuous geometries, for which irreducibility is not assumed. For students and researchers interested in ring theory or projective geometries, this book is required reading.

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