A Brief History of Algebra with a Focus on the Distributive Law and Semiring Theory

2018/07/31 by Peyman Nasehpour, Nasehpour, Peyman
Mathematics · Computer Science · #History and Theory of Mathematics #Logic, programming, and type systems #Advanced Algebra and Logic

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1807.11704

Abstract

In this note, we investigate the history of algebra briefly. We particularly focus on the history of rings, semirings, and the distributive law.

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