Difference Algebra (Algebra and Applications) by Alexander Levin
Difference Algebra (Algebra and Applications) by Alexander Levin
Springer; 2008 edition | April 16, 2008 | English | ISBN: 1402069464 | 527 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Springer; 2008 edition | April 16, 2008 | English | ISBN: 1402069464 | 527 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Difference algebra grew out of the study of algebraic difference equations with coefficients from functional fields. The first stage of this development of the theory is associated with its founder, J.F. Ritt (1893-1951), and R. Cohn, whose book Difference Algebra (1965) remained the only fundamental monograph on the subject for many years. Nowadays, difference algebra has overgrown the frame of the theory of ordinary algebraic difference equations and appears as a rich theory with applications to the study of equations in finite differences, functional equations, differential equations with delay, algebraic structures with operators, group and semigroup rings.