This survey article illustrates many important current trends and perspectives for the field and their applications, of interest to researchers in modern algebra, mathematical logic and discrete mathematics. It covers...This survey article illustrates many important current trends and perspectives for the field and their applications, of interest to researchers in modern algebra, mathematical logic and discrete mathematics. It covers a number of directions, including completeness theorem and compactness theorem for hyperidentities;the characterizations of the Boolean algebra of n-ary Boolean functions and the bounded distributive lattice of n-ary monotone Boolean functions;the functional representations of finitely-generated free algebras of various varieties of lattices via generalized Boolean functions, etc.展开更多
文摘This survey article illustrates many important current trends and perspectives for the field and their applications, of interest to researchers in modern algebra, mathematical logic and discrete mathematics. It covers a number of directions, including completeness theorem and compactness theorem for hyperidentities;the characterizations of the Boolean algebra of n-ary Boolean functions and the bounded distributive lattice of n-ary monotone Boolean functions;the functional representations of finitely-generated free algebras of various varieties of lattices via generalized Boolean functions, etc.