Talk:Anatoly Maltsev

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Crosslink from infitisemals: " In 1936 Maltsev proved the compactness theorem. " —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.53.136 (talk) 01:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Merge

I've suggested Algebra i Logika be merged to this topic, as it apparently isn't notable enough for its own article outside the context of the subject of this article. -- Mikeblas (talk) 02:02, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, I have doubts about this. Algebra i Logika is possibly notable enough to have a stand-along article about it. I checked and although it does not have an impact factor in the JCR, the journal is reviewed cover-to-cover in MathSciNet and Zentralblatt MATH. Also, I looked up their website[1] and they have Efim Zelmanov, who is a Fields Medal winner, listed as an Editorial Board member. The journal probably passes Wikipedia:Notability (academic journals). It may be a good idea to post a note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Academic Journals to see what the people there think. Nsk92 (talk) 02:52, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

I did a search of Worldcat, and it shows[2] 435 libraries in the U.S. subscribing to the English translation of this journal, published by Springer-Verlag. That's pretty good for a math journal. Nsk92 (talk) 05:06, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Other significant results obtained by Maltsev

Maltsev is known in universal algebra for his characterization of congruence permutable varieties. Characterizations of this kind have come to be known as "Maltsev conditions". This can be found in any textbook about universal algebra. He seems to have been the first one to discover and use some form of the compactness theorem from logic. This is generally credited in the historical notes on logic textbooks. If I am recalling well, he is also mentioned in Robinson's (the algebraist, not the logician) book about generalized solvable groups. I regret I have no time now to add these things, I hope in the future. Paolo Lipparini (talk) 12:06, 3 November 2020 (UTC)