Representations of Rings over Skew Fields

Part I. Homomorphisms to simple artinian rings: 1. Hereditary rings and projective rank functions; 2. The coproduct theorems; 3. Projective rank functions on ring coproducts; 4. Universal localisation; 5. Universal homomorphisms from hereditary to simple artinian rings; 6. Homomorphisms from hereditary to von Neumann regular rings; 7. Homomorphisms from rings to simple artinian rings; Part II. Skew subfields of simple artinian coproducts: 8. The centre of the simple artinian coproduct; 9. Finite dimensional divisions subalgebras of skew field coproducts; 10. The universal bimodule of derivations; 11. Commutative subfields and centralisers in skew held coproducts; 12. Characterising universal localisations at a rank function; 13. Bimodule amalgam rings and Artin's problem; References; Index.