Near-Rings and Near-Fields: Proceedings of the Conference on Near-Rings and Near-Fields, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 9–16, 1997

Invited talks.- Combinatorial aspects of nearring theory To the memory of JAMES RAY CLAY.- Left self-distributive rings and nearrings.- On the development of matrix nearrings and related nearrings over the past decade.- Contributed papers.- The use of computers in near-ring theory.- Some results on derivations in nearrings.- Weakly divisible nearrings: genesis, construction and their links with designs.- On semi-endomorphisms of abelian groups.- A note on pseudo-distributivity in group near-rings.- The almost nilpotent radical for near rings.- Polynomial near-rings in several variables.- s-primitive ideals in matrix near-rings.- Essential ideals and R-subgroups in near-rings.- Conditions that MA(G) is a ring.- On dependence and independence in near-rings.- On modules of homogeneous mappings.- The number of isomorphism classes of d.g. near-rings on the generalized quaternion groups.- When is a centralizer near-ring isomorphic to a matrix near-ring? Part 2.- Topology and primary N-groups.- On the radicals of composition near-rings.