Download or read book Finitely Generated Commutative Monoids written by J. C. Rosales and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook for an undergraduate course, requiring only a knowledge of basic linear algebra. Explains how to compute presentations for finitely generated cancellative monoids, and from a presentation of a monoid, decide whether this monoid is cancellative, reduced, separative, finite, torsion free, group, affine, full, normal, etc. Of most interest to people working with semigroup theory, but also in other areas of algebra. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR