Professor Sir Thomas Cherry, F.A.A., F.R.S., died at his home in Melbourne on 21st November 1966 at the age of 68. He was widely known and highly respected as Australia's most distinguished mathematician and a leader in university affairs. He was associated with the University of Melbourne for most of his life, and latterly with La Trobe University as first chairman of its Academic Planning Board. He was a foundation member and a president of both the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Mathematical Society. His greatest contributions to knowledge were probably made in the mathematics of air flow in trans-sonic flight, simultaneously with Lighthill in Britain; but he also made major contributions to global differential equation theory and general dynamics, and solved some difficult special problems in various branches of applied mathematics. He was a most distinguished teacher, amongst whose students are numbered two Fellows of the Royal Society and several professors in Australian and overseas universities. He was a man of wide interests and great ability, of keen insight and broad vision. He knew much more than he ever wrote, and his influence will live on in the minds of innumerable people with whom he worked.

Let S be a bisimple semigroup and let Es denote its set of idempotents. We may partially order Es in the following manner: if e, f ∈ E s, e ≧ f if and only if ef = fe = e. We then say that Es is under or assumes its natural order. Let I0 denote the non-negative integers and let n denote a natural number. If Es, under its natural order, isomorphic to (I0)n under the reverse of the usual lexicographic order, we call S an ωn-bisimple semigroup. (See [9] for an explanation of notation.) We determined the structure of ωn-bisimple semigroups completely mod groups in [9]. The ωn-bisimple semigroups, the I-bisimple semigroups [8], and the ωnI-bisimple semigroups [9] are classes of simple semigroups except completely simple semigroups whose structure has been determined mod groups.

Let be a commutative Banach algebra over the complex field C, M an ideal of . Denote by M2 the set of all finite linear combinations of products of elements from M. M will be termed idempotent if M2 = M. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the structure of commutative Banach algebras in which all maximal ideals are idempotent.

This note shows that the set of bare points of a compact convex subset of a normed linear space is, in general, a proper subset of its set of exposed points.

Consider the following statement: For every positive integer n and every prime p there is a finite p-group of nilpotency class (precisely) c all of whose (n−1)-generator subgroups are nilpotent of class at most n.

In his paper [1], W. D. Munn determines the irreducible matrix representations of an arbitrary inverse semigroup. Munn also gives a necessary and sufficient condition upon a 0-simple inverse semigroup for it to have a non-trivial matirx representation and for such semigroups gives a complete account of their representations. Munn's results rest upon the earlier work of Clifford [2] in which the representations of Brandt semigroups were determined. An alternative account of such representations was given by Munn in [3]. This earlier work is presented in Sections 5.2 and 5.4 of [4].

Distributive pseudo-complemented lattices form an extensively studied class of distributive lattices. Examples are the lattice of all open sets of a topological space, the lattice of all ideals of a distributive lattice with zero and the lattice of all congruences of an arbitrary lattice. Lattice which are just pseudo-complemented have been studied in detail by J. Varlet [6], [7] where, however, the most interesting results require at least the assumption of modularity, sometimes distributivity.

In this paper the Toeplitz determinant of order s ≧ 1 generated by the rational function , with , and , is evaluated exactly for all values of s ≧ m, as , where in with and , thus proving Szegö's formula for the function fm, n(z).

By forming the rational approximation of the generating function the formula is then extended to enabling the evaluation of the limit of Toeplitz determinants generated by certain classes of complex valued functions.

By the geometric moving average of the independent, identically distributed random variables {Xn}, we mean the stochastic process , where a is a real number such that 0≦a≦1.

M. H. Stone raised the problem ([1] Problem 70) of characterising the class of distributive pseudo-complemented lattices ℒ = 〈L; ∨, ∧, 0, 1〉 in which a* ∨ a** = 1 holds identically. Several solutions to this problem have now been offered — the first being by G. Grätzer and E. T. Schmidt [6], who gave this class of lattices the name Stone lattices. Later solutions were given by J. Varlet [11], O. Frink [4] and G. Grätzer [5]; see also G. Bruns [2].

To prove the statement given in the title take a set Σ1 of identities characterizing distributive lattices 〈L; ∨, ∧, 0, 1〉 with 0 and 1, and let Then is Σ redundant set of identities characterizing Stone algebras = 〈L; ∨, ∧, *, 0, 1〉. To show that we only have to verify that for a ∈ L, a* is the pseudo-complement of a. Indeed, a ∧ a* 0; now, if a ∧ x = 0, then a* ∨ x* 0* = 1, and a** ∧ = 1* = 0; since a** is the complement of a*, the last identity implies x** ≦ a*, thus x ≦ x** ≦ a*, which was to be proved.

Throughout this paper F is an algebraically closed field of characteristic p (≠ 0) and g is a finite group whose order is divisible by p. We define in the usual way an F-representation of g (or F G-representation) and its corresponding module. The isomorphism class of the, F G-representation module M is written {M} or, where no confusion arises, M. A (G) denotes the F-representation algebra of G over the complex field G (as defined on pages 73 and 82 of [6]).

This paper continues an investigation of the complete integral closure of an integral domain which was begun in [2]. We recall that if D is an integral domain with quotient field K then an element x of K is said to be almost integral over D if there exists a nonzero element y of D such that yxn is an element of D for each positive integer n. The set D* of elements of K almost integral over D is called the complete integral closure of D and D is said to be completely integrally closed if D* = D.

As the applications of category theory increase, we find ourselves wanting to imitate in general categories much that was at first done only in abelian categories. In particular it becomes necessary to deal with epimorphisms and monomorphisms, with various canonical factorizations of arbitrary morphisms, and with the relations of these things to such limit operations as equalizers and pull-backs.

In studying the compression of loops of fabric between flat parallel plates, the problem arises of the compression of bends. A ‘bend’ is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. Two bends are joined to form a loop. The material is postulated to yield in bending such that the bending moment where B is a bending rigidity, KI the current impressed curvature, and KR the ‘remanent’ curvature. This remanent curvature is the free, or natural curvature in the material caused by its past and present deformation. We study the case when the remanent curvature that is, the remanent curvature is proportional to the greatest previously impressed curvature. We call equations (1) and (2) the ‘Remanent Curvature Hypothesis’.

It is a fascinating problem in the axiomatics of any mathematical system to reduce the number of axioms, the number of variables used in each axiom, the length of the various identities, the number of concepts involved in the system etc. to a minimum. In other words, one is interested finding systems which are apparently ‘of different structures’ but which represent the same reality. Sheffer's stroke operation and. Byrne's brief formulations of Boolean algebras [1], Sholander's characterization of distributive lattices [7] and Sorkin's famous problem of characterizing lattices by means of two identities are all in the same spirit. In groups, when defined as usual, we demand a binary, unary and a nullary operation respectively, say, a, b →a·b; a→a−1; the existence of a unit element). However, as G. Rabinow first proved in [6], groups can be made as a subvariety of groupoids (mathematical systems with just one binary operation) with the operation * where a * b is the right division, ab−1. [8], M. Sholander proved the striking result that a mathematical system closed under a binary operation * and satisfying the identity S: x * ((x *z) * (y *z)) = y is an abelian group. Yet another identity, already known in the literature, characterizing abelian groups is HN: x * ((z * y) * (z * a;)) = y which is due to G. Higman and B. H. Neumann ([3], [4])*. As can be seen both the identities are of length six and both of them belong to the same ‘bracketting scheme’ or ‘bracket type’.

Milne-Thomson's well-known circle theorem [1] gives the stream function for steady two-dimensional irrotational flow of a perfect fluid past a circular cylinder when the flow in the absense of the cylinder is known. Butler's sphere theorem [2] gives the corresponding result for axially symmetric irrotational flow of a perfect fluid past a sphere. Collins [3] has obtained a sphere theorem for axially symmetric Stokes flow of a viscous liquid which gives a stream function satisfying the appropriate viscous boundary conditions on the surface of a sphere when the stream function for irrotational flow in the absence of the sphere is known.

Some recent papers have revived interest in some questions concerning the motion of a simple pendulum which is oscillating with small angular amplitude under gravity, when the length of the pendulum changes with time in some prescribed manner.

A polygon is said to be rational if all its sides and diagonals are rational, and I. J. Schoenberg has posed the difficult question, ‘Can any given polygon be approximated as closely as we like by a rational polygon?’ Many of the known results concerning this question are contained as special cases in theorem 1 below which was proved by one of us (cf. the references).

Let be a given series with its partial sums {Sn} and {Pn} a sequence of real or complex parameters. Write. The transformation given by defines the Nörlund means of {Sn} generated by {Pn}. The series Σann is said to be absolutely summable (N, pn) or summable ∣N, pn∣, if {tn} is of bounded variation, i.e., Σ|tn—tn−1| converges.