International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 18 (1995), Issue 4, Pages 701-704
doi:10.1155/S0161171295000895
Gelfand theorem implies Stone representation theorem of Boolean rings
Department of Mathematics, The Catholic University of America, Washington 20064, DC, USA
Received 27 June 1994; Revised 9 September 1994
Copyright © 1995 Parfeny P. Saworotnow. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Stone Theorem about representing a Boolean algebra in terms of open-closed subsets
of a topological space is a consequence of the Gelfand Theorem about representing a B∗-
algebra as the algebra of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space.