The free band, no maths required

From May to July 2020, I worked with Reinis Cirpons and Murray Whyte under the supervision of Prof. James Mitchell to extend the GAP Semigroups package. We worked mostly on free idempotent semigroups (free bands) and finitely presented idempotent semigroups. Largely, semigroup theory is painfully abstract. Though it has applications in the theory of computation …