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Ring   (English)

Definition (undergraduate level)

A set, with two binary operations. The operations are usually called addition and multiplication, and the set must form a commutative group under the addition operation. The set must also be closed under multiplication, and multiplication must be associative, and distributive over addition.

Definition (undergraduate level)

A commutative ring with unit is a set R with binary operations + : R2 → R and . : R2 → R and distinguished elements 0,1 ∈ R such that
(R,+) is a commutative group with identity 0
. is commutative, associative and 1.x=x ∀x ∈ R
(x+y).z=(x.z)+(y.z) is identically true in R
See also domain, unit, field.

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