Eilenberg-Mac Lane algebras and their computation. An invariant description of H(\Pi,1) Ross Hamsher Ph. D. Thesis, University of Chicago, 1973, under the direction of Saunders Mac Lane. This thesis was never published, and is reproduced here at the suggestion of Saunders Mac Lane, and with permission of the deceased author's brother. Document prepared by Dave Benson and Sharon Southwick.