Mathematician:Richard Scott Pierce
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Mathematician
American mathematician who mainly worked in abstract algebra.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: February 26, 1927 in Long Beach, California
- Died: March 15, 1992
Theorems and Definitions
Publications
- 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