Mathematician:Richard Scott Pierce

Mathematician

American mathematician who mainly worked in abstract algebra.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: February 26, 1927 in Long Beach, California
• Died: March 15, 1992

Theorems and Definitions

• Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture (with Garrett Birkhoff)

Publications

• 1956: Lattice-ordered rings (Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 28) (with Garrett Birkhoff) (in which the Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture was first posited)
• 1959: Translation Lattices
• 1963: The Algebraic Foundations of Mathematics (with Ross A. Beaumont)
• 1967: Modules over Commutative Regular Rings
• 1968: Introduction to the Theory of Abstract Algebras
• 1982: Associative Algebras