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Abstract algebra

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 9:10

I was trying to get into abstract algebra but I was put off by strange names like "ring". Does the ring structure have anything to do with the geometric figure or is it just supposed to confuse people so that only the most hardcore mathematicians will be able to learn it?
Then there's crazy stuff like "magma", what the fuck.
Do I need to buy a book perhaps?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 11:30

Well see, you have a ring structure. A ring can for example be a ring of power sets. But a ring isn't made of natural numbers, so the unitary ring can't be undone by normal means. So you need to form a group. This group can commute to Morgan, where they'll throw the ring in the magma where it was defined. But they'll have to hurry, the interval grows short, and Grassmann is raising an army of monster groups in Eisenstein.
... There's a good book about this. You should buy it.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 11:51

Rings and all that shit all have to do with sets. They're used in measure theory and whatnot. Everything needs a name. So they give it a name. Remember: you can give anything a name you like. So if there is lots of weird terminology, you have to get used to it, because making up terms is something mathematicians do all the time.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-16 12:13

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lul

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