Recent Advances in the Representation Theory of Rings and $C^\ast $-Algebras by Continuous Sections

Book excerpt: From March 20 through April 5, 1973, the Mathematics Department of Tulane University organized a seminar on recent progress made in the general theory of the representation of rings and topological algebras by continuous sections in sheaves and bundles. The seminar was divided into two main sections: one concerned with sheaf representation, the other with bundle representation. The first was concerned with ringed spaces, applications to logic, universal algebra and lattice theory. The second was almost exclusively devoted to C*-algebra and Hilbert space bundles or closely related material. This collection represents the majority of the papers presented by seminar participants, with the addition of three papers which were presented by title.