This work is an updated and considerably expanded version of the author's book The Theory of Semirings, with Applications to Mathematics and Theoretical Science

This book provides an introduction to the algebraic theory of semirings and, in this context, to basic algebraic concepts as e.g. semigroups, lattices and rings

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobatchevsky This boo

This volume presents a short guide to the extensive literature concerning semir ings along with a complete bibliography. The literature has been created over ma

The primary objective of this essential text is to emphasize the deep relations existing between the semiring and dioïd structures with graphs and their combin