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A Survey of Modern Algebra
work by Mac Lane and Birkhoff
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contribution to structural algebra
- In algebra: The structural approach dominates
Prominent among these was A Survey of Modern Algebra (1941) by Saunders Mac Lane and Garret Birkhoff, a book that was fundamental for the next several generations of mathematicians in the United States. Nevertheless, it must be stressed that not all algebraists felt, at least initially, that the new…
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