Alexei Kanel-Belov is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests include ring theory, semigroup theory, polynomial automorphisms, quantization, symbolical dynamic combinatorial geometry and its mechanical applications, elementary mathematics, and mathematical education.Yakov Karasik completed his doctorate at the Department of Mathematics at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.Louis Halle Rowen is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests include noncommutative algebra, finite dimensional division algebras, the structure theory of rings, and tropical algebras.

• Basic Associative PI-Theory: Basic Results. A Few Words Concerning Affine PI-Algebras: Shirshov’s Theorem. Representations of Sn and Their Applications. Affine PI-Algebras: The Braun-Kemer-Razmyslov Theorem. Kemer’s Capelli Theorem. Specht’s Conjecture: Specht’s Problem and Its Solution in the Affine Case (Characteristic 0). Superidentities and Kemer’s Solution for Non-Affine Algebras. Trace Identities. PI-Counterexamples in Characteristic p. Other Results for Associative PI-Algebras: Recent Structural Results. Poincaré-Hilbert Series and Gelfand-Kirillov Dimension. More Representation Theory. Supplementary Material: List of Theorems. Some Open Questions. Bibliography.

Alexei Kanel-Belov is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests include ring theory, semigroup theory, polynomial automorphisms, quantization, symbolical dynamic combinatorial geometry and its mechanical applications, elementary mathematics, and mathematical education.Yakov Karasik completed his doctorate at the Department of Mathematics at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.Louis Halle Rowen is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests include noncommutative algebra, finite dimensional division algebras, the structure theory of rings, and tropical algebras.

• Basic Associative PI-Theory: Basic Results. A Few Words Concerning Affine PI-Algebras: Shirshov’s Theorem. Representations of Sn and Their Applications. Affine PI-Algebras: The Braun-Kemer-Razmyslov Theorem. Kemer’s Capelli Theorem. Specht’s Conjecture: Specht’s Problem and Its Solution in the Affine Case (Characteristic 0). Superidentities and Kemer’s Solution for Non-Affine Algebras. Trace Identities. PI-Counterexamples in Characteristic p. Other Results for Associative PI-Algebras: Recent Structural Results. Poincaré-Hilbert Series and Gelfand-Kirillov Dimension. More Representation Theory. Supplementary Material: List of Theorems. Some Open Questions. Bibliography.