Ralph McKenzie
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Ralph Nelson Whitfield McKenzie (born October 20, 1941) is an American
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,
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ian, and
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ist. He received his doctorate from the
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in 1967. He is a
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of the
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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2016-04-27.


Selected works

*McKenzie with David Hobby: The structure of finite algebras, AMS 1988 *McKenzie with Ralph Freese: Commutator Theory for Congruence Modular Varieties, London Math. Society Lecture Notes, Cambridge University Press 1987


References

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