On 28 Oct 2008, at 3:51 pm, Derek Elkins wrote:
Some variation on a module then:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_(mathematics)


When you have M acting on X and X is an abelian group:
  M is a field => vector space
  M is a ring  => module
  M is a semiring => module over a semiring
  M is a monoid => ???

Maybe I can generalise M to a ring after all...

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