Mathematician:John Mackintosh Howie

Mathematician

Scottish mathematician whose specialty was semigroups.

Nationality

Scottish

History

• Born: 23 May 1936, Chryston, Lanarkshire, Scotland
• Died: 26 December 2011, St Andrews, Scotland

Publications

• 1961: Some problems in the theory of semigroups
• 1962: Embedding theorems with amalgamation for semigroups
• 1970: Contributions to the algebraic theory of semigroups
• 1976: An Introduction to Semigroup Theory
• 1991: Automata and languages
• 1995: Fundamentals of semigroup theory
• 2001: Real Analysis
• 2003: Complex Analysis
• 2006: Fields and Galois Theory

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "John Mackintosh Howie": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive