Nearrings, Nearfields and K-Loops

This volume presents the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Nearrings and Nearfields held in Hamburg at the Universitat der Bundeswehr Hamburg, from July 30 to August 6, 1995. It contains the written version of five invited lectures concerning the development from nearfields to K-loops, non-zerosymmetric nearrings, nearrings of homogeneous functions, the structure of groups, and ordered nearfields. They are followed by 30 contributed papers reflecting the diversity of the subject of nearrings and related structures with respect to group theory, combinatorics, geometry, topology as well as the purely algebraic structure theory of these algebraic structures. This book should be of value to graduate students of mathematics and algebraists interested in the theory of nearrings and related algebraic structures.