Semirings and their Applications

Download or read book Semirings and their Applications written by Jonathan S. Golan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-07-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an updated and considerably expanded version of the author's book The Theory of Semirings, with Applications to Mathematics and Theoretical Science, which has been recognized as the definitive reference work in this area. This edition includes many of the new results in this area, as well as further applications of semiring theory in such areas as idempotent analysis, discrete dynamical systems, formal language theory, fuzzy set theory, optimization etc. The book contains an extensive bibliography and a large number of examples. Audience: This book is aimed both at mathematicians and at researchers in applied mathematics and theoretical computer science. It is also suitable for use as a graduate-level textbook.