On 7 May 2015 at 13:30, Simon King <simon.k...@uni-jena.de> wrote: > Hi Travis, > > On 2015-05-06, Travis Scrimshaw <tsc...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: >> We would like to hear your thoughts on the matter, > > I wouldn't like so much to denote something as "non-bla" (where "bla" > can be associative, commutative, unital, finite, ...), when "non-bla" > just means "not necessarily bla". > > So, please don't name them "category of non-associative algebras". I'd > prefer to name them "category of magmatic algebras". > > Sure, I once learnt that an "algebra" is not necessarily associative. > Just think of Lie algebras. On the other hand, I wouldn't go as far as > saying that our notion of Algebras() should change, because Algebras() > in Sage has always included "associative unital". Changing that would be > backwards incompatible. > > I'd be fine with having MagmaticAlgebras(), and keeping Algebras() as a > synonyme of MagmaticAlgebras().Associative().Unital().
I am looking forward to the discussion about "skew fields". Which are not fields. Except perhaps in France (but there zero is positive, so people clearly cannot be trusted). John > > Best regards, > Simon > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
