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"We call something a Ring to avoid saying" Why a "Ring" and not an "asda2+"?
by klibertp 10y ago
"We call something a Ring to avoid saying"
Why a "Ring" and not an "asda2+"?
- k__ 10y agothe problems I had were mostly with good names. So names that are 1. already used in everyday life AND 2. really fit the concept. These words have definitions in my head that I use often and now math uses them differently. Like 'Menge' (german for Set) which has 'almost' the same definition in math and everyday use. I like the physics approach more, gluons, quarks, protons, etc. these are all words that never had any definition in my life in the first place
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- OscarCunningham 10y agoSome people use "rig" to mean "ring wihout negatives" and "rng" to mean "ring without identity".
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoFrom wiki: """[edit] The term "Zahlring" (number ring) was coined by David Hilbert in 1892 and published in 1897.[9] In 19th century German, the word "Ring" could mean "association", which is still used today in English in a limited sense (e.g., spy ring),[10] so if that were the etymology then it would be similar to the way "group" entered mathematics by being a non-technical word for "collection of related things". According to Harvey Cohn, Hilbert used the term for a ring that had the property of "circling directly back" to an element of itself.[11"""