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In this chapter we introduce the most basic order theoretic concepts: ordered sets, lattices, diagrams, and the most basic algebraic concepts: sublattices, congruences, products.
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Grätzer, G. (2016). Basic Concepts. In: The Congruences of a Finite Lattice. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38798-7_1
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