Extension of a distributive lattice to a Boolean ring

Abstract

The problem of imbedding an abstract distributive lattice in a Boolean algebra by an algebraic extension was suggested to the writer by M. H. Stone in 1933. Hausdorfff had already given a solution of this problem for the case where the given distributive lattice was a ring of point sets. A solution for the abstract case was presented by the writer to the Harvard Mathematical Colloquium (1934), included in his doctoral dissertation, and published. J