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L. A. Bokut’
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Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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G. P. Kukin
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Department of Mathematics, Omsk University, Omsk, Russia
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Pages 1-52
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Back Matter
Pages 315-384
About this book
Even three decades ago, the words 'combinatorial algebra' contrasting, for in stance, the words 'combinatorial topology,' were not a common designation for some branch of mathematics. The collocation 'combinatorial group theory' seems to ap pear first as the title of the book by A. Karras, W. Magnus, and D. Solitar [182] and, later on, it served as the title of the book by R. C. Lyndon and P. Schupp [247]. Nowadays, specialists do not question the existence of 'combinatorial algebra' as a special algebraic activity. The activity is distinguished not only by its objects of research (that are effectively given to some extent) but also by its methods (ef fective to some extent). To be more exact, we could approximately define the term 'combinatorial algebra' for the purposes of this book, as follows: So we call a part of algebra dealing with groups, semi groups , associative algebras, Lie algebras, and other algebraic systems which are given by generators and defining relations {in the first and particular place, free groups, semigroups, algebras, etc. )j a part in which we study universal constructions, viz. free products, lINN-extensions, etc. j and, finally, a part where specific methods such as the Composition Method (in other words, the Diamond Lemma, see [49]) are applied. Surely, the above explanation is far from covering the full scope of the term (compare the prefaces to the books mentioned above).
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
L. A. Bokut’
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Department of Mathematics, Omsk University, Omsk, Russia
G. P. Kukin
