Wednesday, May 31, 2006

An attempt at writing maths in HTML

Some definitions:

A group is a non-empty set G with an operation ⋅ such that:

  • the set is closed under the operation (closure)
  • a⋅(b⋅c) = (a⋅b)⋅c (associativity)
  • ∃e ∈ G such that ∀a ∈ G a⋅e = e⋅a = a (identity)
  • ∀g ∈ G ∃g-1 ∈ G such that g⋅g-1 = g-1⋅g = e (inverses)

A semi-group is a non-empty set with an operation such that

  • the set is closed under the operation (closure)
  • a⋅(b⋅c) = (a⋅b)⋅c (associativity)

Or, a semi-group is a non-empty set which is closed under an associative operation, or a semi-group is an associative groupoid.

A groupoid or magma is a non-empty set equipped with a single binary operation M × M → M. An operation is closed by definition (so I could have removed that axiom from each of the definitions above).

A monoid is a semi-group with identity.

A ring is a non-empty set S with two operations (called addition (+) and multiplication (×), however they might be defined) such that:

  • (S, +) is an Abelian group with identity 0.
  • (S, ×) is a monoid with identity 1.
  • ∀a,b,c ∈ S, a(b+c) = ab + ac

A commutative ring is a ring where (S, ×) is commutative.

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