Download or read book Functional Identities written by Matej Brešar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A functional identity can be informally described as an identical relation involving arbitrary elements in an associative ring together with arbitrary (unknown) functions. The theory of functional identities is a relatively new one, and this is the first book on this subject. The book is accessible to a wide audience and touches on a variety of mathematical areas such as ring theory, algebra and operator theory.