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A Development of the Peano Postulates (open access)

A Development of the Peano Postulates

The purpose of this paper is to develop the Peano postulates from a weaker axiom system than the system used by John L. Kelley in General Topology. The axiom of regularity which states "If X is a non-empty set, then there is a member Y of X such that the intersection of X and Y is empty." is not assumed in this thesis. The axiom of amalgamation which states "If X is a set, then the union of the elements of X is a set." is also not assumed. All other axioms used by Kelley relevant to the Peano postulates are assumed. The word class is never used in the thesis, though the variables can be interpreted as classes.
Date: May 1963
Creator: Peek, Darwin Eugene
System: The UNT Digital Library
Topological Groups (open access)

Topological Groups

The notion of a topological group follows naturally from a combination of the properties of a group and a topological space. Since a group consists of a set G of elements which may be either finite or infinite and since this is also common to a topological space, a question is opened as to whether or not it is possible to assign a topology to a set of elements which form a group under a certain operation. Now it is possible to assign a topology to any set of elements if no restriction is placed on the topology assigned and hence this study would be of little value from the standpoint of the group itself. If however it is required that the group operation be continuous in the topological space then a very interesting theory is developed.
Date: May 1960
Creator: Carry, Laroy Ray
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solving Linear Programming's Transportation Problem (open access)

Solving Linear Programming's Transportation Problem

A special case of the linear programming problem, the transportation problem, is the subject of this thesis. The development of a solution to the transportation problem is based on fundamental concepts from the theory of linear algebra and matrices.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Culp, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ideals and Boolean Rings: Some Properties (open access)

Ideals and Boolean Rings: Some Properties

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate certain properties of rings, ideals, and a special type of ring called a Boolean ring.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Hu, Grace Min-Ying Chin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Continuous Solutions of Laplace's Equation in Two Variables (open access)

Continuous Solutions of Laplace's Equation in Two Variables

In mathematical physics, Laplace's equation plays an especially significant role. It is fundamental to the solution of problems in electrostatics, thermodynamics, potential theory and other branches of mathematical physics. It is for this reason that this investigation concerns the development of some general properties of continuous solutions of this equation.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Johnson, Wiley A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spaces of H-Integrable Functions (open access)

Spaces of H-Integrable Functions

In this thesis we consider integrals of a certain class of interval functions. Specifically we consider a nondegenerate number interval [a,b], a real valued function m, defined and nondecreasing on [a,b], and the set Hm, of real valued functions f, defined on [a,b] such that: 1) f(a)=0; 2) for each subinterval [p,q] of [a,b], if m(q)-m(p)=0, then f(q)-f(p)=0; and 3) the set of all sums of the form Σ(Δf)2/Δm for subdivisions D of [a,b] is bounded above.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Wittenmyer, Eugene L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Genesis for Compact Convex Sets (open access)

A Genesis for Compact Convex Sets

This paper was written in response to the following question: what conditions are sufficient to guarantee that if a compact subset A of a topological linear space L^3 is not convex, then for every point x belonging to the complement of A relative to the convex hull of A there exists a line segment yz such that x belongs to yz and y belongs to A and z belongs to A? Restated in the terminology of this paper the question bay be given as follow: what conditions may be imposed upon a compact subset A of L^3 to insure that A is braced?
Date: May 1969
Creator: Ferguson, Ronald D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Existence and Uniqueness Theorems for Nth Order Linear and Nonlinear Integral Equations (open access)

Existence and Uniqueness Theorems for Nth Order Linear and Nonlinear Integral Equations

The purpose of this paper is to study nth order integral equations. The integrals studied in this paper are of the Riemann type.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Hurlbert, Gayle Jene Shultz
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Comparability of Cardinals (open access)

The Comparability of Cardinals

The purpose of this composition is to develop a rigorous, axiomatic proof of the comparability of the cardinals of infinite sets.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Owen, Aubrey P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compact Convex Sets in Linear Topological Spaces (open access)

Compact Convex Sets in Linear Topological Spaces

The purpose of this paper is to examine properties of convex sets in linear topological spaces with special emphasis on compact convex sets.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Read, David R.
System: The UNT Digital Library