Stone space

noun

Stone space

noun

Etymology Named after Marshall Harvey Stone (1903–1989), an American mathematician.

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Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences, Topology A topological space constructed from a Boolean algebra, whose points are ultrafilters on the algebra.

  • For every Boolean algebra there is a Boolean ring corresponding to it. The prime spectrum of a Boolean ring is a Stone space.

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