ISBN-13: 9783764388577 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 242 str.
This book presents translations of selected works of the famous Russian mathematician A.I. Shirshov (1921 1981). He was a pioneer in several directions of associative, Lie, Jordan, and alternative algebras, as well as groups and projective planes. His name is associated with notions and results on Grobner-Shirshov bases, the Composition-Diamond Lemma, the Shirshov-Witt Theorem, the Lazard-Shirshov elimination process, Shirshov s Height Theorem, Lyndon-Shirshov words, Hall-Shirshov bases, Shirshov s theorem on the Kurosh problem for alternative and Jordan algebras, and Shirshov s theorem on the speciality of Jordan algebras with two generators. Shirshov s ideas were used by his student Efim Zelmanov for the solution of the Restricted Burnside Problem. Several famous algebraists provide in this book detailed comments on the impact of Shirshov s work on current algebra."