Mathematician:Richard Scott Pierce

American mathematician who mainly worked in abstract algebra.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 1927
 * Died: 1992

Theorems and Definitions

 * Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture (with Garrett Birkhoff)

Books, Publications, etc.

 * 1956: Lattice-ordered rings (Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 28) (with Garrett Birkhoff) (in which the Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture was first posited)
 * 1959: Translation Lattices
 * 1963: The Algebraic Foundations of Mathematics (with Ross A. Beaumont)
 * 1967: Modules over Commutative Regular Rings
 * 1968: Introduction to the Theory of Abstract Algebras
 * 1982: Associative Algebras