Was Gelfand Right? The Many Loves of Lattice Theory
Jonathan David Farley · Notices of the American Mathematical Society · 2022
Never in the history of mathematics has a mathematical theory been the object of such vociferous vituperation as lattice theory."In this article, we outline some of the exciting open problems in lattice theory and the theory of ordered sets.I was surprised when I walked into the office of the person I hoped would be my doctoral advisor.The year before, I had bought the book coauthored by that person, a light blue paperback I still have in my possession: Introduction to Lattices and Order, by B.