We have selected in five chapters what we believe to be the core of sets
and order in mathematics. Of course,we are aware that this was an ambitious
plan and that our selection could not be infallible. Yet we did our best and we
conclude the eBook with several examples which illustrate the applications of
lattices to topology (§§1-3), to universal algebra (§4), to a new field of applied
mathematics called formal concept analysis (§5) and to logic (§6). Besides the
references to the literature given in the sections of this chapter, we recommend
a nice paper by Birkhoff [1970], with the suggestive title “What can lattices do
for you?”.
Keywords: Closure algebra, topological closure, almost discrete space,
Heyting algebra, algebraic lattice, equivalence lattice, congruence lattice, formal
context, formal concept, Lindenbaum-Tarski algebra, completeness theorem.
