Introduction to Relation Algebras

Introduces readers from mathematics, computer science, and beyond to the increasingly relevant field of relation algebras Engages the reader with numerous examples, exercises, and historical remarks The first volume of a textbook pair, which together provide a landmark unified treatment of the field

Steven Givant is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Mills College, California. As a long-term collaborator of Alfred Tarskione of the great logiciansGivant has been involved first-hand in the development of the field of relation algebras since the 1970s. His previous books include Duality Theories for Boolean Algebras with Operators (Springer, 2014), Introduction to Boolean Algebras, with Paul Halmos (Springer, 2009), Logic as Algebra, with Paul Halmos (MAA, 1998), and A Formalization of Set Theory without Variables, with Alfred Tarski (AMS, 1987). He was also coeditor, with Ralph McKenzie, of Alfred Tarski's Collected Papers: Vol 1-4 (Birkhäuser, 1986).