Ring

Definition: A ring is a set R with operation addition and multiplication such that:

- (R,+) is an Abelian (the identity elements for + is written as 0)

- (R,.) is associative, perhaps not commutative, without identity and without inverse.

- " . distributes over + " : r(r' + r") = rr' + rr" & (r' + r")r = r'r + r"r

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Abstract algebra continues the conceptual developments of linear algebra, on an even grander scale.

Dr. Paul Garrett