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The Dilworth Theorem

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In Parts III–V, we discuss a subfield of Lattice Theory that started with the following result—a converse of Theorem 3.4, the Funayama -Nakayama result, [53].

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Grätzer, G. (2016). The Dilworth Theorem. In: The Congruences of a Finite Lattice. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38798-7_8

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