Synopses & Reviews
Review
"...absolutely essential to anyone with any interest in the subject matter, because of its comprehensiveness, currency, well-written style, and extensive bibliographical references." Journal of Symbolic Logic
Review
"...contains a rich collection of concrete examples and exercises. It may be useful both as a reference book and as a texbook." Mathematical Reviews
Table of Contents
Introduction; Acknowledgements; Notations and conventions; Remarks on the development of the area; Section summaries; 1. Some preliminaries; 2. Positive primitive formulas and the sets they define; 3. Stability and totally transcendental modules; 4. Hulls; 5. Forking and ranks; 6. Stability-theoretic properties of types; 7. Superstable modules; 8. The lattice of pp-types and free realisations of pp-types; 9. Types and the structure of pure-injective modules; 10. Dimension and decomposition; 11. Modules over artinian rings; 12. Functor categories; 13. Modules over artin algebras; 14. Projective and flat modules; 15. Torsion and torsionfree classes; 16. Elimination of quantifiers; 17. Decidability and undecidability; Problems page; Bibliography; Examples index; Notation index; Index.