Proceedings of the Conference on Algebra in honor of Nathan Jacobson, held in New Haven, Connecticut, June 25, 1981, edited by S.A. Amitsur, D.J. Saltman, and G.B. SeligmanVerso of t.p.

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Division algebras. A survey ; Representation theory of finitedimensional algebras ; The polynomial identities of matrices ; The order of a finite group of Lie type ; Restricted Lie algebras (and beyond) ; Determinants on free fields ; Weak Cohomology ; Applications of the classification of finite simple groups to Brauer groups ; Generic Structures and Field Theory ; Balanced spaces of forms and skew cyclic transformations ; Rings with Bounded Index of Nilpotence ; On the Jacobson density theorem ; Derivations of prime rings having power central values ; Lie and Jordan Mappings ; Some Properties of Rings Reflected in Endomorphism Rings of Free Modules ; On the Galois theory of commutative rings. I. Dedekind's theorem on the independence of automorphisms revisited ; On the Deformation of Diagrams of Algebras ; On the GelfandKirillov dimension of Noetherian P.I.algebras ; A simple proof of Kostant's theorem, and an analogue for the symplectic involution ; Affine rings satisfying a polynomial identity ; Algebraic structure of power series rings ; Linkage and the symmetric algebra of ideals ; Polynomial Constraints in LatticeOrdered Rings ; Reality properties of conjugacy classes in spin groups and symplectic groups ; Variations on Even Clifford Algebras ; On the Determination of Rank One Lie Algebras of Prime Characteristic ; Restricted Simple Lie Algebras of Rank 2 or of Total Rank 2 ; Restricted Simple Lie Algebras with Toral Cartan Subalgebras ; Composition triples ; Triple products, modular forms, and harmonic volumes ; Bivariants of ternary rings ; Separable Alternative Algebras over Commutative Rings ; Exceptional Jordan Division Algebras ; An Apology for Jordan Algebras in Quantum Theory ; Identities of nonassociative algebras studied by computer ; On regularly closed fields ; Some geometric applications of a differential equation in characteristic > 0 to the theory of algebraic surfaces ; On the inverse problem in difference Galois theory ; Quadratic Hopf algebras and Galois extensions ; The left antipodes of a left Hopf algebra ; Similarity of nilpotent, integer matrices, or, four elementary categories ; Normal antilinear operators on a Hilbert space ; Why commutative diagrams coincide with equivalent proofs ; Axiomatic game theory S A Amitsur ; M Auslander ; Edward Formanek ; T A Springer ; J E Humphreys ; P M Cohn ; Moses E Sweedler ; Murray Schacher ; David J Saltman ; Darrell E Haile ; Abraham A Klein ; J M Zelmanowitz ; I N Herstein ; Wallace S Martindale 3rd ; Barbara L Osofsky ; Carl Faith ; Murray Gerstenhaber and S D Schack ; Martin Lorenz and Lance W Small ; Louis Halle Rowen ; William F Schelter ; M Artin ; Craig Huneke ; Stuart A Streinberg ; Walter Feit and Gregg J Zuckerman ; George B Seligman ; Georgia M Benkart and J Marshall Osborn ; Richard E Block ; Robert Lee Wilson ; Kevin McCrimmon ; Bruno Harris ; W G Lister ; Robert Bix ; Holger P Petersson and Michel Racine ; John R Faulkner ; Leslie Hogben ; Tsuneo Tamagawa ; Piotr Blass ; Ronald P Infante ; H F Kreimer ; Warren D Nichols and Earl J Taft ; Daniel Zelinsky ; Irving Kaplansky ; Saunders Mac Lane ; David J Winter