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Topological Properties of Chains

Description: The purpose of this paper is to define and investigate some of the properties of chains. Particular attention is given to a natural topology for chains, called the interval topology, and how the chain properties and topological properties of chains affect each other.
Date: January 1966
Creator: Womack, Robert A.
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Which Came First : The Measure or the Integral?

Description: This thesis provides a development of integration from two different points of view. In Chapter I, a measure and a measurable function are defined. A theory of integration is then developed in Chapter II based on the measure. In Chapter III, the integral is introduced directly without first going through the process of defining a measure, and a measure is developed from the integral. The concluding chapter shows the equivalence of the two integrals under rather general conditions.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Chapman, John Barnes
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The Role of the Quasigroup in the Development of Binary Systems

Description: The objective here is to give a logical development of some mathematical systems beginning with those having relatively little algebraic structure, and progressing to systems rich in structure. The discussion will commence with a mathematical system called the groupoid, a nonempty set with a binary operation.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Stingel, Charles Willard
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A Fundamental Study of Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers

Description: The purpose of this paper is to present a discussion on the basic fundamentals of the theory of sets. Primarily, the discussion will be confined to the study of cardinal and ordinal numbers. The concepts of sets, classes of sets, and families of sets will be undefined quantities, and the concept of the class of all sets will be avoided.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Thornton, Robert Leslie
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Lattices

Description: Because lattice theory is so vast, the primary purpose of this paper will be to present some of the general properties of lattices, exhibit examples of lattices, and discuss the properties of distributive and modular lattices.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Rintala, Richard Arne
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Field Extensions and Galois Theory

Description: This paper will be devoted to an exposition of some of the relationships existing between a field and certain of its extension fields. In particular, it will be shown that many fields may be characterized rather simply in terms of their subfields which, in turn, may be directly correlated with the subgroups of a finite group of automorphisms of the given field.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Votaw, Charles I.
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Compactness and Equivalent Notions

Description: One of the classic theorems concerning the real numbers states that every open cover of a closed and bounded subset of the real line contains a finite subcover. Compactness is an abstraction of that notion, and there are several ideas concerning it which are equivalent and many which are similar. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the more important of these ideas. This synthesis is accomplished by demonstrating either situations in which two ordinarily different conditions are equivale… more
Date: August 1967
Creator: Bell, Wayne Charles
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Some Properties of the Fibonacci Numbers

Description: This thesis is presented as an introduction to the Fibonacci sequence of integers. It is hoped that this thesis will create in the reader more interest in this type of sequence and especially the Fibonacci sequence. It seems that this particular area of mathematics is often ignored in the classroom or touched upon far too briefly to stimulate curiosity and develop further interest in this field.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Willey, Wm. Riley
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A Generalized Study of the Conjugate and Inner-Product Functions

Description: The usual practice in any discussion of an inner-product space is to restrict the field over which the inner-product space is defined to the field of complex numbers. In defining the inner-product function, (x,y), a second function is needed; namely the conjugate function (x,y)* so that (x,y) ± (y,x)*. We will attempt to generalize this concept by investigating the existence of a conjugate function defined on fields other than the field of complex numbers and relate this function to an inner-pr… more
Date: June 1967
Creator: Wright, Dorothy P.
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Algebraic Properties of Semigroups

Description: This paper is an algebraic study of selected properties of semigroups. Since a semigroup is a result of weakening the group axioms, all groups are semigroups. One facet of the paper is to demonstrate various semigroup properties that induce the group axioms.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Lumley, Robert Don
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Product and Function Spaces

Description: In this paper the Cartesian product topology for an arbitrary family of topological spaces and some of its basic properties are defined. The space is investigated to determine which of the separation properties of the component spaces are invariant.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Barrett, Lewis Elder
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On Lane's Integral

Description: The problem and purpose of this paper is to develop Lane's Integral in two-space, and then to expand these concepts into three-space and n-space. Lane's Integral can be used by both mathematicians and statisticians as one of the tools in the calculation of certain probabilities and expectations. The method of presentation is straightforward with the basic concepts of integration theory and Stieltjes Integral assumed.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Hill, William James
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Some Properties of Valuation Rings

Description: This thesis investigates some of the properties of valuation rings. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the basic properties of commutative rings and ideals in rings. Unless otherwise stated, all rings considered in this thesis are commutative rings with a unity.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Miller, Linda C.
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Radicals of a Ring

Description: The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of determining the properties of three radicals defined on an arbitrary ring and determining when these radicals coincide. The three radicals discussed are the nil radical, the Jacobsson radical, and the Brown-McCoy radical.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Crawford, Phyllis Jean
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Ideals in Quadratic Number Fields

Description: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the properties of ideals in quadratic number fields, A field F is said to be an algebraic number field if F is a finite extension of R, the field of rational numbers. A field F is said to be a quadratic number field if F is an extension of degree 2 over R. The set 1 of integers of R will be called the rational integers.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Hamilton, James C.
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