• division ring, also called a skew field, is a nontrivial ring in which division by nonzero elements is defined. Specifically, it is a nontrivial ring...
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    Saturn's ring was composed of multiple smaller rings with gaps between them; the largest of these gaps was later named the Cassini Division. This division is...
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  • simplest commutative rings are those that admit division by non-zero elements; such rings are called fields. Examples of commutative rings include the set...
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  • different language, modules, special classes of rings (group rings, division rings, universal enveloping algebras), as well as an array of properties that...
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  • application in projective geometry requires that the scalars come from a division ring (skew field), K, and this means that the "vectors" should be replaced...
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  • Equivalently, a noncommutative ring is a ring that is not a commutative ring. Noncommutative algebra is the part of ring theory devoted to study of properties...
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  • nonzero ring R in which every nonzero element is a unit (that is, R× = R ∖ {0}) is called a division ring (or a skew-field). A commutative division ring is...
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    leads to the concept of a division ring or skew field; sometimes associativity is weakened as well. The only division rings that are finite-dimensional...
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  • 3-sphere. The Hurwitz quaternions form an order (in the sense of ring theory) in the division ring of quaternions with rational components. It is in fact a maximal...
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  • normed division algebras are R, C, H, and the (non-associative) algebra O. Pontryagin variant. If D is a connected, locally compact division ring, then...
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